marcin
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by asthma and had difficulty going out for a
stroll or to the taverns for his usual glass.
He died just before Christmas of 1950.
“Trilussa is an epicurean moralist,” said
Barberi Squarotti. And Sciascia: “Trilussa’s
characters really do not come out of Gogol’s
“Overcoat.” In fact the poet does not know
how to thrust deeply, he plays lightly with
the foil and never takes sides clearly. “What
holds him back is the lack of true
indignation” against man’s behavior, against
his vices and his violence.
His poetry is almost always easy and flat,
and skims the surface even when a
sentimental, somewhat crepuscular vein
filters in, only to disappear at once.
Essential bibliography: Tutte le poesie di
Trilussa, ed. P. Pancrazi, with notes by L.
Huetter, Milan: Mondadori, 1954; Poesie, ed.
