marcin
(Marcin)
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spheres. De Donno has brought his classical
and secular background to this study of
dialect, characterized by a resentful and
polemical humanism. It is not by chance that
he contributed to the review La Rassegna
Pugliese and other cultural publications, and
added to his fertile creative vein the study of
the folk culture of his territory.
De Donno’s work seems to aim at
summarizing and confirming what is meant
today by dialect poetry as an alternative
code to writing in Italian. In the first place,
De Donno has generally preferred the brief
and refined measure of the sonnet,
demonstrating that even the apparently
humblest dialect has a no less wide range of
rhythms and accents. The richness of the
technical solution is paralleled by the
endless variety of themes: whether it is the
polemical treatment of civil and social issues