The Metaphor

By Giorgio Bolla

This book moves in waves of thought.
Just like the waves, it starts off by a small motus, it grows and flows into the peak wave that digs the bottom of the lagoon; then as a gift, it pours it back.
If at that time you are lucky enough to be on the water, you budge.
This essay is itself a metaphor.
Fm. Carolina Migli Bateson preamble

From the first chapter
Who knows weather St. Francis of Assisi understood that his reality, his religion of things, was nothing but an extraordinary sequence of metaphors.
Going back in thought to the highest metaphor, the divinity one, man is forced to reinvent colours , seasons and the acts that condition our life and make it fruitful.
Metaphor is like an act, like a gesture of will power, it’s a research, in the end, for freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mnamon
• Release date: Apr 13, 2021

Giorgio Bolla

Giorgio Bolla is a 58-years-old italian poet, Adria born -18/11/1957 – and living in Padova . He has a degree in medicine (Padua University 1981) .He carries out two professions,pediatric surgeon and racing-driver too.He has published eleven collections of poems :Solo immagini (2008 – Ismeca ed. Bologna), Il Motore del Tempo (2009 – Ismeca ed. Bologna),Mnesis (2010 – Ismeca ed. Bologna) ,Assoli di Oboi (2010 – Liminamentis ed. Monza), Ruote Alate (Italian-Spanish) (2011 – Lospazio ed. Latina) ,Skhandha (2012 – La Versiliana ed. Viareggio), Epistolario (e-book Italian-Spanish) (2012 – Mnamon ed. Milano),Il Libro delle Ore (e-book) (2012 – Mnamon ed. Milano) ,Storie di acqua di Angeli e di vento (2013 – La Vita Felice ed. Milano) ,In vicinanza delle nuvole (with Mario Benatti – 2014 ABao AQu ed. Ferrara), La Quintessenza del Gioco (2015 – Gilgamesh ed. Mantova).In 2016 he published with Mnamon the essay, between poetry and philosophy, LThe Metaphor.On July 2011 he has won the Grand Prize of Mediterranean Poetry (Larissa,Grecia).He received the “Palme d’Or for art”, September 24, 2016 in Montecarlo and the first price in the competition “Friar Ilaro” a Bocca di Magra November 18, 2017.He is literary critic of magazine “Eikon” . He is foreman of Jury of the International Literary Prize “Pigafetta” (Vicenza-Italy) .He is an Academician of Universum Academy- Switzerland and contributor of Senecio.it .Its own poetry appears necessarily and guides its hand of writer .

Book preview

Penetrating a parallel dimension

GIORGIO BOLLA

THE METAPHOR

From poetic action to philosophical concept

logo mnamon

The shadow of the sun only

it's what remains

I never thought that a philosophical essay on metaphor could be analized in a cafe’ in Venice.

In fact, the pace of the Lagoon fits perfectly to the internal rhythm of this unconventional work.

This book moves in waves of thoughts.

Just like the waves, it starts off by a small motus, it grows and flows into the peak wave that digs the bottom of the lagoon; then as a gift, it pours it back.

If at that time you are lucky enough to be on the water, you budge.

This essay is itself a metaphor.

Carolina Migli Bateson

There are at least 15 mobile phones belonging to the author at the bottom of the Venetian Lagoon.

Chapter I

Who knows whether St. Francis of Assisi understood that his reality, his religion of things, was nothing but an extraordinary sequence of metaphors.

Going back in thought to the highest metaphor, the divinity one, man is forced to reinvent colours, seasons and the acts that condition our life and make it fruitful.

Metaphor is like an act, like a gesture of will power, it’s a research, in the end, for freedom.

Reality reinterpreted.

Altissimu, onnipotente, bon Signore,

tue so’ le laude, la gloria e l’honore et onne benedictione .

Ad te solo, Altissimo, se konfano,

et nullo homo ène dignu te mentovare.

Laudato sie, mi’ Signore, cum tucte le tue creature,

spetialmente messor lo frate sole,

lo qual’e’ iorno, et allumini noi per lui.

Et ellu e’ bellu e radiante cum grande splendore:

de te, Altissimo, porta significatione.

Laudato si’, mi’ Signore, per sora luna e le stelle: