marcin
(Marcin)
#1
The publication and critical recognition
of Borazio’s works has taken place only
many years after his death: from the
linguists Sabatini and De Mauro who
presented them in a volume, to the
anthropologists and critics De Nola,
Bronzini, Dell’Aquila and Augieri who have
underlined their cultural and literary
significance. During his brief lifespan (35
years) he had the capacity and will to
become self-taught, to write many poems in
Italian and finally move on to dialect with
the utmost awareness. It was a fruitful
apprenticeship that produced numerous
handwritten notebooks, a small etymological
dictionary, a few sheets-newspapers (one of
Borazio’s inventions, a sort of satirical-
popular publication with vignettes and
varied pleasantries). The author from the
Gargano area, then, immediately felt the