marcin
(Marcin)
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no place in the songs of the farmers, of the
street vendors, of the idlers and those who
loiter in the streets, in the slums and in the
harbor, living by their wits.
On the contrary, he was able in my
opinion to restore a distant poetic truth
through “Canzone ‘e copp’ ‘o tamurro,” in
which he “invokes,” silently and gently, the
necessity of bringing back into piazze and
alleyways the “carnascialeschi” of ancient
memory. But this time not only with the
intent to offer spectacle and amusement, but
to share with the people the shivers of the
never-spent fire reflected in everyday
occurrences.
In this sense we could interpret Di
Giacomo as one of those theatrical specimen
(Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Calderón,
Goldoni, Molière, Pirandello) who in every
instance feel the vibrations of the stage and