marcin
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expressive level, they “vary naturally
according to each poet, or rather they are but
the limits of the artistic potential of the
individual poet.”
The first confirmation of this truth, as
Campana himself observes, comes from the
experience of Alfredo Luciani (1889-1969),
from Pescosansonesco (Pescara), who with
Stelle Lucenti (1913, 2nd Ed. 1921), must be
considered the initiator of what could be
called an Abruzzi “Stilnovo”, marked by a
vigorous tendency to lyric vocation, with the
adoption of “a dialect that belongs to no one
town and, collectively, to all the towns in
Abruzzi,” as Luciani underlined. The way
was thus opened to what was later called a
real regional koiné, a sort of “ideal and
instinctive synthesis of all the phonetic and
intonational nuances,” into which converge
in equal measure “a strong local flavor” and