Mario Marti e la storia linguistica del Salento (bilanci e prospettive)

During his long and prestigious career, Mario Marti has always cultivated the current of Salento literature with care and dedication, with the intention of renewing the local culture in a supra-regional perspective. These pages retrace Marti's bibliography to highlight the contribution he gave to the linguistic history of Salento. At the same time, some possible research paths for the future are identified. The titles reviewed are grouped into three areas: studies on texts in the Salento vernacular, articles (and books) dedicated to reflected dialectal literature, writings on Italian literature by Salento authors. In the end, the story of the "Biblioteca di Scrittori Salentini" is reconstructed, a work strongly desired by Mario Marti and not yet completed.