marcin
(Marcin)
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Italian, Pascarella attempted the long poem
with Storia nostra [Our History], which was
intended to trace events beginning with the
foundation of Rome. “If Belli had used that
dialect solely to introduce the Roman people
‘to speak of themselves in his naked, coarse
and even bawdy tongue,’ Pascarella needed
it to sing the glory of a nation: anthithetical
attitudes that place the two poets on
different paths, even if historically both are
Romantic positions. But Pascarella’s attempt
is to be underscored even more if one
considers that at the time in other regions
the epic poem was only something to be
translated, so they looked to the Comedy,
the Jerusalem, the Orlando, the Aeneid, a
chapter still to be studied both as a
phenomenon and as the dialect’s attitude
with respect to the classics.
Totally ignoring history, Trilussa would