marcin
(Marcin)
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politics, the separatism of Finocchiaro
Aprile, Gallo, Canepa was taking root.
Around De Maria gathered the dialect
poets Ugo Ammannato (1906-1959), Miano
Conti (1905-1957), Nino Orsini (1908-1982),
Pietro Tamburello (1910) and the very young
Paolo Messina (1923).
At the end of 1945 the meetings stopped,
as the Township decided to give the great
hall back to the Gallery of Modern Art.
Nonetheless, in that climate the groundwork
was laid for a radical renewal of Sicilian
dialect poetry, which would become more
evident in subsequent years, characterized,
according to Salvatore Di Marco’s
reconstruction, by the affirmation of the
literary value of the best Sicilian linguistic
tradition, discovering a project of koinè that
would bestow the literary dignity of
language to the Sicilian dialect.(...) In the