marcin
(Marcin)
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“the dialect epic.” Villa Glori is nevertheless
less “fanciful and lively” than La scoperta
dell’America [The Discovery of America].
In 1941 Storia nostra [Our History] comes
out posthumously, which however gives too
much play to linguistic wordplay and
historical ambiguities, told amidst puns and
“comical anachronisms,” as has been noted.
In part the “distraction” of the journeys, in
part the overly programmatic poetics in
keeping with the official standard of the
regime, weaken this work by Pascarella who
however, perhaps thanks to his tolerant
attitude, became Academic of Italy in 1930.
Thus, there is truth in what Cecchi wrote, as
Brevini notes, that “Pascarella was the epic
poet that Carducci could not be for linguistic
reasons.”
Cesare Pascarella died in Rome in 1940.