Among the numinous and admirable events related to the Golden Age events, natural disasters stand out for receiving a notable media coverage. Indeed, the unprecedented attraction to catastrophes is not only due to the complex evolution of the public, with its imaginary, of the so-called 'string culture', but also to the radical change that occurred in perception, interpretation and narration of dire times. Starting from the individuation of the features that make up the reporter narration of the catastrophe - specifically, its rhetorical and stylistic frameworks, without neglecting its connection with other literary genres - the purpose of this book is to investigate how the culture of the time takes hold and comes to assume the 'disaster' as a phenomenal category, attributing to it the varied collection of meanings that only an attentive textual tracing allows to elicit.