To define with an expression the poetry of Renato Greco would involve the reduction of a multi-faceted world within a conceptual cage, which, while on one side outlines a horizon of understanding, on the other fatally limits its vigor. Considering the bulk of his production, it is spontaneous to recall to mind the verse of Ovid "quidquid tentabam dicere versus erat" ("everything I tried to express became towards"), because the poet is an indefatigable author of texts that flank him during the 'whole existence, as Horace said of Lucilius, the predecessor in the satirical genre:' quo fit ut omnis / votive pateat veluti descripta table / life senis' ("hence the whole life of that old man is described as on a votive tablet ").