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whose style he admired.
Perhaps it was also these studies on the
Eighteenth Century, these exercises
addressing authors of international repute,
that allowed him to be considered by Renato
Serra already an innovator at the time of La
Voce, as Giacinto Spagnoletti reminds us^14 ;
certainly Di Giacomo cannot be ignored or
liquidated as one of the many minstrels that
have infested Romantic, Verista and
Decadent literature.
The weight of his personality, of his
humanity, of his notoriety bothered quite a
bit Ferdinando Russo who, at the outset, was
not able to touch in the least Di Giacomo’s
presence. Critics remained almost
indifferent to his early work which seemed
to be taking belated populist positions of
early Romanticism. Now the studies on