“In his poetry, that has a distant love spark, he introduces a new way to treat nature, full of simplicity and tenderness, which is clearly of arcadian origin. But the shepherds and the other characters of the Italian arcadian pahtheum (in what Christopoulos reports, he also adds Phylle, Chloe and Thyrsis) it is only the pretext that will place the poet against the recycling of times, the change from day to night, the succession of the ages of man, through a purely pre-romantic veil of melancholy. […]

Many of the features of Italian arcadian poetry can be highlighted: the serenity of the night, the tranquility of the animals, and the passage of time. Although love here is a “commonplace”, a standard feeling, it becomes a symbol of a real sorrow, the failure to satisfy an existencial need. The pre-romantic mood is dominant. The “great depth” is for the poet a reality that tortures him deeply”. pp.162-163.