marcin
(Marcin)
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find a way of putting on a show. Di
Giacomo, however, was also a journalist and
careful student of events, of Neapolitan
history, what one might call an erudite, who
did not miss the particulars of a people and a
culture thirsting for truth, though never
meant to become tyrannical. The journalist,
the man of theater, the erudite, then, do
their inlay work in the “ariette,” in the
sonnets, in the short poems, in which we
find alternating voices, allusions,
suggestions; in which we perceive, in the
background, the lament of a Chimera that
devours men and things to make them new,
perennially new. He hade made his debut
with tales that he defined “Germanic,” to
the extent that he awoke the suspicion of
plagiarism in Cafiero and Verdinois who had
invited him to contribute to the Corriere del
Mattino; they were “fantastic” stories, and if