L’AMICO DI GELLIO (E DI ALTRI AMICI): su "Le Muse in gioco" di Giorgio Bernardi Perini

This paper carefully examines the rich book that Giorgio Bernardi Perini aims to present as «his farewell work». The author has collected his verse translations of Latin works that frequently feature as art re-writings of ancient originals. As well as such «sovrascritture», or «overwritings» as Bernardi Perini himself defines them, the collection shows occasional poems and short memoirs linked to some of the most relevant friend relations the writer has had throughout a culturally committed life. The review high-lights some of the most refined and poetical features that make the work not just a farewell but the first of new contributions that will make our relationship with the past more valuable and richer in humanity.