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MARIO DELL’ARCO
Mario dell’Arco is the pseudonym of
Mario Fagiolo. He was born in Rome in 1905
and has been living in Genzano for several
years.
He worked as architect and publisher,
without ever neglecting his activity as a poet
and as a determined and tireless advocate of
the defense of dialect in general, not only
Roman dialect. He founded and edited the
reviews Il Belli, Il nuovo Belli and Il nuovo
Cracas. He became known to readers in 1952
for having collaborated with Pier Paolo
Pasolini at the historic anthology Poesia
dialettale del Novecento [Dialect Poetry of
the Twentieth Century] published by
Guanda.
His work as an essayist has also been
prolific: Lunga vita di Trilussa [The Long Life