marcin
(Marcin)
#1
necessity of bringing dialect and Italian face
to face, also because his land, still deeply
agricultural and pastoral, did not offer any
literary tradition at the time of his vocation.
In so doing, he was able to find stylistic
deviations and interferences well-suited to a
written expression that could cut corners
precisely because it was free from deference
to convention.
All this, even though Borazio kept his
hometown, San Marco in Lamis, very
realistically, as a privileged reference point:
which really is his world, or rather the
symbol of the world to be elevated to
autonomous artistic discovery. In addition to
numerous compositions that range from the
pathetic to the elegiac, from depiction of the
landscape to local color, from parodic to
moralizing emphasis, Borazio has bestowed
his greatest energies on the realization of Lu