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and engage in operations of linguistic

archeology in which melancholy and

mournful moods combine with the idyllic

and evocative tones of E. Spensieri (cf. op.

cit.); the vertical, strongly interiorized

tensions, translated into neo-hermetic

stylistic patterns by N. Guerrizio (cf. op. cit.;

Viente de vòria, 1963; Pagliare ‘e fantasie, 1969);

the corrosive, ironic, polemical voice of

Turillo Tucci (cf. Cenza che ze sfoche.

Monologhi, I, 1967; Cenza che ze sfoche.

Dialoghi, II, 1968); the contemplative,

“social” vein of Camillo Carlomagno (cf.

Gente nustrana, 1969; Voce de mundagna,

1969; Voglie candà, 1980 [posthumous]; the

backward glances into memory, the

moralistic tension, the existential concerns of

Gianni Barrea (cf. Viarelle de fore, 1972; Vurie

de state, 1980). Alongside the authors just