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Parzanese seen by literary critics. Bruno Traversette

In this ruibrica are some rare literary reviews on the work of literary Parzanese.

Traversette BRUNO, History of Italian poetry from its origins to neoavanguardia, Luigi Pellegrini Ed vol. 3, pp 143 -144.

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with chants of Viggiano, finds expression in the form of popular semiballata the uplifting inspiration of the priest Pietro Paolo Parzanese (18098-1852). "Poet of the village", as defined desanctisiana, Parzanese takes as its themes of the songs accompanied by ARPA poetic fiction, these true poets of the village who were precisely the Viggiano, itinerant storytellers from the country of travel in Lucania:

I have the harp at the neck, are viggianese;

whole world is my country.

Like the swallows leave the nest

singing Step lido in lido

easy verses, rhythms and music of Parzanese instinctive move by a friendly communication that will bring comfort to those joyous optimism and poor classes, which are usually peripheral and subordinate esclcusi the use of poetry. At the bottom of these ballads is a pedagogy of liberal Catholicism to some extent, emotionally and sincerely close to the humble condition, even if adverse to a strange and consistent efforts of analysis and social opposition.

Parzanese, indeed, here as in the following Songs of the Poor, 1851, launches its emotional appeal against any potential subversion social and even against any disturbance in the ingenuous mind tools also popular with literary, poetic, designed to corrupt the postulated, happily resigned inner serenity. Despite major limitations, however, and the lyrical poetry of affectionate Parzanese is among the few, at the age Risorgimento to turn really, with educational intent and spirit of solidarity, the marginal classes. [1]

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[1] minor poets of the nineteenth century, edited by G. Petronio, Torino, UTET, 1959, p.423