Add to ORKGThis essay explores in a transversal way certain hardly known works of Giorgio Manganelli, Scrivere storie umane, Appunti di un uomo disorientato (1960) and Taccuino (dated 1972-1980), contained in the collection of stories Ti ucciderò mia capitale (2011), and establishes a connection between them and other more well-known Manganelli’s works, like Hilarotragoedia (1964), Centuria (1979) and Encomio del tiranno (1990). Thanks to an analysis of language and themes, this study highlights the consistency of literary thought of Manganelli, and it shows how some works interact and debate with some others, in a manneristic coincidentia oppositorum. Moreover, it is possible to partially discover the nature of the private work of the writer, and to ...