marcin
(Marcin)
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they go so far as to exhibit it, with that easy
insistence that demands attention in the
name of a tradition within which one is sure
to find at least the legitimacy of being heard.
Clearly, the latter show the keen
preoccupation typical of the vaudevillians,
of the variety artist who yearns for applause
and doesn’t care about the rest.
Gaetano Mariani has written that they
“live in the shadow of Belli’s words; they go
into the streets,... they listen to the people,
speak in their tongue, they see them move,
love, suffer; but they listen to them and see
them with Belli in their ears and in their
soul, as a guide but also as a constant
burden.”
Different from the poetry of Ferretti and
Chiappini or even opposed to it is that of
Augusto Marini, who looks to political and
economic news as fodder for his verses. So
