“Brilliant Inventiveness and Exquisite Poetry”. Maria Anto and the Twentieth-Century Polish Art as Seen through Dino Buzzati’s Eyes

Abstract

The article presents an account of the origins, course and effects of a trip to Poland in September 1969 by the Italian writer, journalist and painter Dino Buzzati (1906–1972). In Warsaw, Buzzati met the painter Maria Anto, with whom he formed a brief but intense artistic relationship.