Ibridare le parole e le immagini con le forme del mondo Il gioco di Italo Calvino col labile confine tra mondo-scritto e non-scritto

The written texts a writer dedicates to visual art are hybrid, and their parenthood is manifold, including literary writing and the observed image. In these pages, we analyse Italo Calvino's ekphrastic and icastic production to demonstrate its hybrid and synthetic form and substance – synthetic read as a synthesis of verbal and visual language. Therefore, it is possible to highlight how the writer considers the representation, consubstantial with reality, as hybrid and synthetic – viewed as a synthesis of the author and world. Nature and culture are made of the same material.