marcin
(Marcin)
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concrete interests in history, popular and
high culture, the dialects of the province and
ever stronger demands for separatism and
administrative autonomy. The fruitful
preparatory phase of the positivistic studies
of the late Nineteenth Century, especially in
the fields of folklore and history proper (cf.
Alberto Mario Cirese’s essay Intellettuali e
mondo popolare nel Molise [Intellectuals and
Popular World in Molise], Isernia, 1983, 3d
reprint) lays the groundwork for the
significant studies by B. Galileo Amorosa
(Riccia nella storia e nel folk-lore, 1903),
Eugenio Cirese (Canti popolari del Molise,
1910), Oreste Conti (Letteratura popolare
capracottese, 1911) Giovanni Ziccardi (Il
dialetto di Agnone, 1910), for the academic
research of Francesco D’Ovidio, whose
philological teachings were extremely
important for the methodological and
