marcin
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Mattino for one of his disputes) and had
contacts with the camorra, even following
very well known judicial cases, such as those
of Ciccio Cappuccio and Gennaro Cuocolo.
An official of the National Museum, after
having married a chanteuse, he devoted
himself to the study of Neapolitan poets of
the Seventeenth Century (we should
mention at least his books on Velardiniello:
Rome, Edizioni Modernità, 1913 and, from
the same year and with the same editor,
Gran Cortese), and his works attained
considerable success.
He was always proud of the
distinguished friendships he made (Zola,
Fogazzaro, Carducci) and of his curiosity as a
traveler familiar with several European
capitals. He was a “popular” figure, as
someone wrote, a “petit bourgeois” who
tried to give himself some airs through his
