L'Umorismoi s the most important text in Pirandello's entire essayistic output. Written in 1908 for academic reasons and published in Lanciano by Carrabba, it was republished in 1920 in Florence by Battistelli, with the intention, among other things, of responding to Benedetto Croce's scathing review of the first edition.
It is a complex text, to be reread and rethought today in its points of light but perhaps also in its veils.
To introduce it, we are publishing here the last essay by Prof. Angelo Pupino, who in the last months of his life devoted himself to a renewed study of Umorismo, crowning his long dedication to Pirandello's principal work of poetics.
