marcin
(Marcin)
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the collections ‘U vascidduzzu and A pici,
alternating, in the same period, the
publication in Italian of La Madonna nera
[The Black Madonna] and Fichidindia [Prickly
Pears]. He translated Mallarmé’s “L’après
midi d’un faune” and edited, with
philological rigor, La baronessa di Carini ─
“Storia” popolare del sec. XVI [The Baroness of
Carini ─ Popular “Story” of the Sixteenth
Century], 1958. As a scholar of popular
poetry he published Indovinelli popolari
siciliani [Popular Sicilian Riddles], 1954;
Gioco e fantasia [Play and Fantasy], 1956; La
primavera e i dodici mesi dell’anno [Spring and
the Twelve Months of the Year], 1959.
National language and dialect received,
in the poetry of Vann’Antò (pseudonym of
Giovanni Antonio Di Giacomo, 1891-1960)
equal attention, but did not have equal
