marcin
(Marcin)
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conscious literary dignity, even if he refuses
to adopt “high-class dialect” and employs
instead the “pure and primitive speech of
the farmers” of his native town (cf. Li sunette
de nu Colledarese, 1883) or, at any rate, the
popular dialect of the city of Teramo (cf.
Ddu huttave e ttre sunette, 1884).
More substantial and demanding is the
work of Luigi Brigiotti (1859-1933), from
Teramo, who draws on his long experience
as a tax accountant for a wealth of material
that reflects a reality inherent in the
supposed everyday banality, which he
portrays at times with irony, at times with
vaguely social themes: from Nu recurde de
l’Espusizione didattica (1899) to La
gennasteca nova (mono-logue, 1903), Na
chiacchiarate de gnore Paule (1904), La torre de
lu Doome [The Duomo’s Tower] (short
