marcin
(Marcin)
#1
examples of Marin in Grado, Loi in
Lombardy, Pierro in Tursi or Pasolini in
Friuli. In the Nineteenth Century in Sardinia
they were still searching for a language, a
linguistic habitat ubi consistere. Later only a
few isolated cases (Salvatore Ruju, Pompeo
Calvia, Cesarino Mastino, Benvenuto Lobina,
Francesco Masala and Ignazio Delogu - in
addition to the even more isolated examples,
if one can call them that, of Sari and Pinna ─
have demonstrated the possibility of
bending dialect to their own personal
expressive need, with a few happy
inventions at the level of verbal forms and of
the still uncodified orthography.
Instead, in Sardinia it happened that a
dialect poet, such as the logudorese
Francesco Masala, has been able to be
dialectal even when he was writing in
Italian, borrowing from the maternal dialect