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In the panorama of Italian literature at the end of the nineteenth century Enrico Annibale Butti (Milan 1868 - Milan 1912) has a more than minor place. Born in the same decade as Federico De Roberto (1861), Italo Svevo (1861), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863) and Luigi Pirandello (1867), he is known mainly for his dramas, performed from 1890, and whose most noted are Fiamme nell'ombra (1904) and Lucifero (1901). Before devoting himself to theater - around twenty plays performed between 1889 and 1913 - he wrote five psychological novels: L'immorale (written in 1889, published five years later), L'automa (1892), L'anima (1893), L'incantesimo (1897), including one unfinished: L'ombra della croce (1905). The thesis covers his entire literary production and provides new elements on the author's biography. An important place is reserved for the research of his unlisted texts: news, articles, diary. Butti is put in contact with other writers of the same period, and a reflection is carried out on his role in Italian and French literature. In the thesis the reasons which determined his exclusion from the history of literature are studied and the emblematic portrait of this minor writer is drawn up.