Juan Ramón Jiménez y la literatura italiana

This article follows a double itinerary: on one hand, the way in which Italian authors and works have influenced the poet's work and, on the other hand, Juan Ramon's notoriety in Italy. Dante, Petrarca and, above all, Leopardi figure among the patterns that the Spanish poet follows in his prose and poetry. He has estetic and ethic affinity with Leopardi. Both of them share art and death obsession and they aspire to an art and life fusion. Thus, they put themselves in the non temporary dimension of art and in the distance that creation needs. Their ideologic affinity fixes itself in a similar writing method, which prefers short expressions and constantly corrects what is already written. At the moment, it does not exist yet a complete study about Juan Ramon's influence in Italy. We know that a large number of his works were translated and that they were also commented by great Hispanists.