marcin
(Marcin)
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Lorca’s and Neruda’s lesson.
In 1947, meanwhile, after the separatist
movement began to fade, the Sicilian Region
was born, autonomous, with a special
statute; the same year also saw the massacre
of Portella della Ginestra, still obscure in
some respects, which was attributed entirely
to Turiddu Giuliano, a character which has
remained suspended at least in part between
the figure of the gentleman bandit and the
defeated patriot.
In Agrigento, in the years 1950-51,
Antonino Cremona (1931), who was not
connected to any group, writes his poems in
the Girgenti dialect; much admired for their
spareness and clarity, they were published
by S. Sciascia with the title Occhi antichi
[Ancient Eyes], and remain a precise
reference point. In the same period, the poet
Nino Pino was writing in the Messina