marcin
(Marcin)
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maxim: “describe your village and you will
be universal”; with the master of Russian
narrative he shared a vocation for realism
and a tendency to develop symbiotically the
poles of sociability and religiosity.
Figures such as St. Francis and St. Clara
move in a rural scenery: from the island’s
nature, with its Mediterranean elements
(“air and green”), in a landscape made of
vine runners, of “soft almonds,” of “sky and
valleys”, emerges the figure of the “poor
lover.”^16
The world of the humble is represented
with intimate participation, not with a
middle-class perspective or fanatical
primitivism. Di Giovanni’s work is popular
with regard to themes ─ from Lu fattu di
Bissana [The Bissana Incident], 1900) to A lu
passu di Giurgenti [At Girgenti’s Pass], (1902)