marcin
(Marcin)
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Studi Santo Calì.
He was also a keen essayist, and has left a
vast body of critical work, among which:
Folklore etneo [Etnean Folklore] 1959; La
pazienza dei contadini [The Patience of
Farmers], 1959; Cento lire al giorno per morire
di fame [One Hundred Lire a Day to Die of
Hunger], 1962; Frate Feliciano da Messina, il
Raffaello dei Cappuccini, 1968.
He was included in Mondadori’s
anthology Le parole di legno. Poesia in
dialetto del 900 italiano, 1984, edited by
Mario Chiesa and Gianni Tesio.
He died in his Linguaglossa the night
between the 15th and 16th of December,
1972.
For Santo Calì (1918-1972), the
Linguaglossa dialect ─ the language of his
hometown ─ becomes his idiom and the
