Abstract
LU SCÏÒ BY GUIDO MILANESI BETWEEN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE The article intends to analyse the short story Lu scïò by Roman writer Guido Milanesi, published after the First World War in the collection of stories Mar Sanguigno. Milanesi’s works belong to the genre of the colonial novel, but Milanesi can be mostly defined as a writer of sea tales. the article introduces the historical period in which Milanesi’s works were published and then presents the Adriatic legend of the waterspout and compares it with other local writings. A brief linguistic analysis follows, which examines the mixture of Italian dialect and maritime terms present in the story.
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