marcin
(Marcin)
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making acquaintances that gave him the
possibility, at only twenty-two, to publish
his first sonnets in Roman dialect in Cronaca
Bizantina and Capitan Fracassa.
His collaboration with the two reviews
allowed him to strike up a friendship with
Gabriele D’Annunzio and Edoardo
Scarfoglio. The three made a trip to Sardinia
with a spirit of adventure and with the
intention to discover a civilization that they
considered different from that of other
Italian regions, and for this reason
interesting both from a social and a more
strictly anthropological point of view.
In 1883 he began to write for Fanfulla
della Domenica, which allowed him to
publish the long poem La serenata [The
Serenade] and aroused the critics’ welcome,
if somewhat belated, interest, even for the
recent work published the year before, in