marcin
(Marcin)
#1
almost all follow the line drawn by Di
Giacomo, Russo and Viviani, some
emphasizing melody, others rhythm, others
recapturing certain beguiling moods and
feelings. The tradition of Neapolitan dialect
poetry has no pauses, but, except for some
poets tied to Piedigrotta, the standard of the
texts remains identical to that of the past, as
if quicksand were making it impossible to
leave the assigned groove. Is Di Giacomo’s
era over? No doubt it is, but in the end it is
always with him that one must come to
terms.
So it was for Achille Serrao who, while
born in Rome, uses the dialect of Caivano, in
the province of Caserta. After an intense
activity in Italian, he begins to write in
dialect in 1990, with Mal’aria, and one
immediately realizes that those texts have
forcefully left behind the beguiling sirens of
