marcin
(Marcin)
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modest literary interest, according to
Pasolini in the aforementioned anthology.
Still able to interest us today, on the one
hand they well represent the spirit of the
people of Bari, which borders on
“irreverence and obscenity” (Dell’Aquila,
op.cit.) without sentimental mewling, and
on the other, that of the people of Lecce,
characterized instead by an elegant air with
popular overtones. Not much better fare
David Lopez and Antonio Nitti, who also
arrive late with respect to the expectations of
a nation unified with great difficulty.
“Consider — adds Pasolini ─ what intense,
imaginative poetry could have been
produced by an inspiration conscious of an
element then potentially vital to poetry in a
southern dialect, that is, an anti-unification
or even pro-Bourbon political stance. This
carried-over literature, positioned between