marcin
(Marcin)
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who in his youth had taken part in the
Futurist movement. Author of novels and
dramas (one of which performed by the
great Ermete Zacconi), but also of Barunissa
di Carini (The Baroness of Carini), in dialect,
with an introductory essay on Sicilian poetry
and Félibrige, De Maria had just founded a
Society of Writers and Artists, organizing,
starting in 1944, lively afternoons of dialect
poetry and folklore once a week, in the
Yellow Room of the Politeama Theater.
The city still displayed the deep wounds
caused by the war: a large part of it had been
destroyed by the bombardments of the first
three months of 1943, during which
hundreds of dead were buried under the
ruins and in the shelters; the serious dearth
of housing and food was complicated by a
steep increase in crime, with extremes which
would be equaled only in the present; in
