marcin
(Marcin)
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man of the people who looks to the middle
class when he speaks. The subsequent
collection, Er mantello e la rota [The Cloak
and the Cape], all centered on circumstances
that look to Belli as he thoughtfully
considers life and human destiny, introduces
the poet’s new hell whose center is Rome
and whose outskirts are the other side of a
Rome advancing from the remote shores of a
universal desert. Marè writes in Sìllabe e
stelle [Syllables and Stars], “Streets of Rome,
alleyways: / I often come to visit you. / My
heart on my sleeve, / I look for hand-me-
down myselves.” Mario Lunetta has
observed that for Marè “it is not enough to
relate, to represent with sorrowful wit the
scenes of an Arazzo Romano [Roman
Tapestry] that in any case remained a fiction
to be subjected to words of praise or scorn: