marcin
(Marcin)
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the ariette and Neapolitan songs and
demand a new kind of attention, free of
commonplaces. The significance of this has
been noted by Franco Loi, by this writer,
Spagnoletti, Vivaldi, Brevini, who underline
the change taking place in a linguistic area in
which the difficulty of change remained
enormous, precisely because Naples and the
surrounding areas had gone through several
intense periods overflowing with poetry (the
Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth
centuries, the beginning of the Twentieth).
Serrao, with his long, rugged verses, not
devoid of tenderness and nuances,
inaugurated a season which attests to the
readiness of Campania’s poetry to question
everything in order to start moving forward
again. In the musicality that unfolds not
under the soft caresses of Donizetti and
Bellini, but under the apparently metallic