\u201eGaia scienza\u201c e \u201etriste scienza\u201d. La forma breve in Nietzsche e Adorno.

The article examines the influence of Nietzsche\u2019s aphoristic writing on the thought and the style of Th. W. Adorno and especially on his Minima Moralia. Notably, the critique of philosophical systems and the short prose poetics have been very important for the developing of Adorno\u2019s own short prose style, in spite of all differences in the philosophical approach, particularly Nietzsche\u2019s non-dialectical versus Adorno\u2019s deeply dialectical thinking. In the last part the article analyses some specific rhetorical and stylistic features of the short prose of these two thinkers