marcin
(Marcin)
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that is both lyrical and narrative.
Going on to southern Apulia, we have
already mentioned the particular cultural
position of this area, that at the beginning of
the Sixteenth Century produced a poet like
Galateo (Antonio De Ferrariis). The fact is,
that unlike other Apulian realities, this land
has granted dialect a life of dignity equal to
Italian, having always been the means of
communication of the cultured class and the
preferred choice in the Academies and
cultural gatherings. Therefore there are
many names worthy of mention: from
Lorenzo Casarano to Oberdan Leone (alias
Don Kaber) to Francesco Marangi (alias
Gamiran), Giuseppe Susanna, Giuseppe
Marzo, Salvatore Imperiale (inspired also by
the drama of emigration), Emilio Passeri, the
already mentioned Giuseppe De Dominicis
(alias Captain Black), till the contemporary