marcin
(Marcin)
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in time almost an obsession in both life and
writing. Thus that also explains why the
second great glue of so much output in
verse, which I would not weigh in all
together in a consideration of poetry, has
been that sentiment of civil indignation, of
protest and revolt that at the beginning of
the Nineteenth Century found in the
Arcadian Francesco Ignazio Mannu and in
his hymn The Sardinian Patriot to His
Feudal Lords (whose meaning is clear), what
has been defined as the “Sardinian
Marseillaise.” But all has been said also
explains why the Sardinian language, as I
already stated elsewhere (la Stampa-
Tuttolibri, July 15, 1978), “born in state of
submission, is a tragic language (in the sense
of a Greek tragedy) and has retained and
keeps retaining a dramatic charge not only
in the words of the female mourners and