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poesie, edited by Carlo Bernari: Naples,
Guida, 1984.
For the critical bibliography, besides
Bernari’s work, we suggest Luigi Reina,
Ferdinando Russo ─ Popolarità, dialetto, poesia:
Napoli, Ermanno Cassitto Editore, 1983.
Ferdinando Russo was born in Naples in
1866. He was a member of the group formed
by Arturo Colautti, Gabriele D’Annunzio,
Matilde Serao, Edoardo Scarfoglio, Angelo
Conti, Roberto Bracco, who undertook a
frenzied literary and journalistic activity in
Naples between the end of the last century
and the beginning of ours. In the Mattino, he
ran a column of wordly and literary events,
raising endless controversies, to the extent
that he even criticized Di Giacomo for
possible errors or improprieties in the use of
the Neapolitan language. He was passionate
and exuberant (he was expelled from the