marcin
(Marcin)
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original and deforming expressionism, often
hyperbolic, of Sgruttendio da Scafati, or the
one somehow differently “normalizing” of
Giambattista Basile or Giulio Cesare
Cortese...). Dialects, that is, become flexible
again in the cultured use of poets who can
mediate their aristocratic artistic needs with
the more general ones of expressiveness (and
of communication as well, even if
privileged), bringing about a meeting
between “speakers” (often merely
hypothetical) and “non speakers,” in the
name of a recovered language aiming at the
absolute, the eternal: the classical, finally.
This language crosses the boundaries of
dialect anthropology inasmuch as it
presupposes, at any rate, a refined and
supernational culture. For it is precisely the
latter that has permitted an active use of it,
capable of rendering dialects all the more