Gli uccelli nella poesia "romantica" dalla traduzione alla rielaborazione

This essay focuses on the image of birds in the so-called Arabic “Romantic” poetry. A preliminary paragraph offers some brief considerations on the concept of “Romanticism” applied to Arabic poetry and identifies the trope of birds as a suitable theme for an analysis of the evolution of romantic issues in the Arabic poetry of the 19th century. Excerpts from poems by al-ʿAqqād, Šukrī, al-Šabbī and al-Malāʾika are given in order to follow the evolution of the bird imagery, borrowed from translations of Romantic English poets and reshaped by the poets’ inspiration