marcin
(Marcin)
#1
considered in all its scope. Plainly put, Di
Giacomo is to the Twentieth Century as
Porta is to the Nineteenth, and this takes
nothing away from the poetry of Belli, who
looks to Porta, nor from the poetry of Giotti,
of Tessa, of Marin, of Noventa, which has Di
Giacomo behind it.
Having firmly established this point, one
can tackle all possible arguments in order to
unravel correlations, allegiances, affiliations
and Freudian patricides; what is certain is
that Di Giacomo is “something unique”^12
and is also a great precursor of underworld
poetry, which flourished in European
literature in the Twenties.^13
His recognition as a founding figure, as
can be seen, comes from various parts, and
looking at the studies by Benedetto Croce,
Francesco Gaeta, Borgese, Bracco, Cecchi,