marcin
(Marcin)
#1
MICHELE SOVENTE
The poets who employ Latin are
increasingly rarer, even if recent and less
recent tradition is filled with important
names like Pasolini, Vitrioli, Mazza,
Morabito. Some ascribe this loss to the
schools that have slackened the reins (where
are the great Calabrian Latinists who taught
Boccaccio and Petrarch?), others think that
writing in a dead language is obsolete and
anachronistic, but if they were to meditate
on what Pascoli said every time he dealt
with his competitions in Amsterdam (“The
language of poetry is always a dead
language”), perhaps they would understand
the scope of a cultural and poetic operation,
and would not dismiss the phenomenon so
quickly.
On the other hand, there is nothing