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plebeian obscenities, without that capacity
for sublimation, contemplation and protest
that elsewhere even humble and wretched
societies, in possession of a strong dialect,
were able to express” (M. Dell’Aquila,
Parnaso di Puglia nel ‘900, Bari, Adda, 1983,
pp. 305-306). It must be pointed out,
however, that this is not the case in the
Salento (southern Apulia), where the
presence of a vigorous local culture has
promoted a rather different tradition, which
we will examine further on.
Since the texts produced between the
Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries are
classifiable only as being generically
Apulian, the region’s dialect literature
begins just before the middle of the
Nineteenth Century with Francesco Saverio
Abbrescia from Bari and Francescantonio
D’Amelio, that is to say, two names of