'O Giurnale d'Italia is adventato / Nu cam...mmarino, addò they go to can...ntà / All the cicadas. And, they sang so much, (...)"
So begins the poem, in clear controversy with "Il Giornale d'Italia" and its incessant series of interventions on the Neapolitan dialect theater. Next to it we read in fact a polemical intervention published in "La Ribalta" addressed precisely to "Al Giornale d'Italia". The whole folder that preserves the poem is a flourishing of polemical articles, clipped from various newspapers, around the Neapolitan dialect theater, a very topical cultural topic at the end of the century and now more alive and relevant than ever.