BOOK REVIEW: Glauco Ortolano's "A Lie for a Lie, a Truth for a Truth" Adriano Moz, PhD Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature Of the fifty-three poems that this collection exhibits, there is not a single one that does not show substantial relevance, a deep personal engagement, and a solid philosophical basis. The poet, Glauco Ortolano, in a loose metrical pattern, with a combination of various types of short stanzas, and without the burden of multiple rhymes, interjects into his verses the wisdom of a mind dedicated to capture the reader's attention on highly engaged social and personal thoughts, all enveloped in perennial principles. The titles themselves indicate that the content of this lyrical collection intend to conceptualize what in this life is 'Temporary', versus what is 'Eternal', what is 'Appearance' versus what is true 'Reality'. To this purpose, the present selection initiate the analysis of the human existence with the poem "Principles" that sets the philosophical basis of the entire booklet, while the collection finalizes with the harsh sound of the last poem, "Tolling Bell," with which the author thoughtfully concludes his ideas on the circle of human existence. Ortolano, well knowing the Italian Renaissance champions, Dante and Petrarch, revisit and synthetize in his own original way, the spiritual voyage of perdition, purification, and glorification, that those two great figures had developed with their immortal works. And this he does not forgetting at least another author,