marcin
(Marcin)
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Contini, Doria, Gatto, De Robertis, Galletti,
Pancrazi, Montale, Pasolini, Luigi Russo,
Serra, Serao, Vossler, Vinciguerra, Flora, one
immediately forms the right impression of
the “magical quality” of the poet who, even
among conflicting judgments, remains for
everyone “the sentimental verista,” as he
liked to describe himself, the writer who
never refrains from giving words and
expressions their primal meaning, their
simplicity devoid of the accumulations that
time, for ill or good, has deposited on them.
It is true, Di Giacomo’s poetry is intrinsically
musical, fresh, almost olfactory, but
musicality and freshness are never produced
through vagueness and indefiniteness; in the
poet there is a strong sense of measure,
which allows him to paint at his pleasure
with more brilliant colors and the most
persuasive notes without the risk of