marcin
(Marcin)
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recites in theaters (not only in Rome, and
Giuseppe Verdi was in the audience in
Milan), and falls prey to a restlessness that
turns him into a wanderer and a stubborn
walker.
Pascarella’s poetry is born on the
threshold of Belli’s experience, which fades
away or takes on new connotations with the
rise of post-Unification nationalism and the
patriotic enthusiasm of the Risorgimento.
The model being followed was Carducci,
who will take a favorable interest in
Pascarella’s poetry, thereby generating an
almost disproportionate general
endorsement on the part of men of letters
and readers. So Pascarella, from Er morto de
campagna [A Dead man in the Country],
1882, goes on to Villa Glori (1886), tempted
by what Giorgio Barberi Squarotti has called