EDITORIALE Iliad, the poem of the loss, by Sotera Fornaro / RESEARCH ARTICLES About a theory of the loss, by Georg Seeßlen / Morfology of Trauerfall in Berg and Büchner’s «Wozzeck», by Nicola De Rosa / «Wherever I am, I am what is missing». For a tragedy of absence between Tacitus and Anagoor, by Susanna Pietrosanti / Beyond Loss: Emotional Memories of Disaster in Tina Merlin and Svetlana Aleksievič, di Mariarosa Loddo /Losing and losing oneself in the Petersburg of N.V. Gogol': noses, capes, identity, by Alessandra Cattani / Emotion constructed upon Sumerian agricultural landscape. The anthropology of meaning, di Nelson H. Ferreira