The longing for space makes a silent, yet tenacious fight against the compression of space, the evoked and imagined adventure (mainly marine) against the monotonous passing of time and its signs, the suffocation and reduction against the amazement and the expectations: explicitly, visually, and in the filigree of the expression, in the changes in the rhythm of metrics. However, the enigmatic light of that time can’t be the light of a time lost. Or maybe just lost in its enigma?

Mario Luzi

Martellini ends up creating something new…he has measured poetry - his poetry - up with everybody’s life, often formless and hidden…that doesn’t leave empty-handed either, the reader, or those who, albeit purely by chance, face this everlasting comparison with the secret voice.

Carlo Bo

Luigi Martellini, literary critic and poet, lives in Fermo, Italy. He is an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo).