Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)
* Go, my cuckoo, go and sing of a race dressed in black whose song has come to silence; of leaden fibers on the loom, of a spind ...
Ciuòcchere ‘Ngoppa alla varda, amore, ‘ncatenate dalla muntagna càlene nu ciuòcchere... Chi mana vo’ spanà nude de jàccure a pri ...
The Kindling Tied to the packsaddle, my love, is the firewood, brought down from the mountain. What hands will loosen the ropes ...
A mená grànnera E dope la calia a menà grànnera: na risa de cumbiette a ciele vasse, nu strucurà pe’ tèttera e ramere. E la spec ...
ossidarsi, battute dal solleone, / spighe dalla testa spezzata, pena di anime / piegate e distrutte. E tutt’intorno / più nulla ...
Hailstorm After the swelter, the pelting: low skies broke out in laughter, rattling shingles and rooftops. Languid wheatstalks, ...
LATIUM For centuries, approximately since the Renaissance, everything written in dialect in the Latium region is related to Rome ...
folklore, but expressive worlds often of considerable quality. Having to choose some texts for a small Twentieth -Century anthol ...
towner and lets him have a taste of its linguistic expressiveness, which mixes with the monuments, the works of art, tradition. ...
the birth of the Italian language (Da mihi illum panem: da mi il pane). The phenomenon this time concerns the other regional idi ...
Rome is the Capital of Italy, the fate of the country and the spiritual fate of Christianity are decided there; it is the crossr ...
they go so far as to exhibit it, with that easy insistence that demands attention in the name of a tradition within which one is ...
simple sketches are replaced by satirical and polemical comments that strike at the government and its Ministers, the Cardinals, ...
only able to impose an original and acceptable form when they become cutting and mocking. To find some kind of poetic certainty ...
suggestions. Zanazzo carefully avoids dwelling on whatever he feels to be extraneous and above all avoids attracting the reader’ ...
exclusively on the trunk of the Roman dialect, but he opens a fresh new chapter, with which he contributes to the development of ...
sticky crepuscular tone and reach high and lofty notes, bringing “into history Belli’s ahistorical world,” as Franco Brevini wri ...
over Italian. It is more proper because it is more concrete, because it has not been used by sublime minds for many centuries fo ...
poetry, had clear in his mind what was happening in that never really clarified relationship between dialect and language. These ...
Italian, Pascarella attempted the long poem with Storia nostra [Our History], which was intended to trace events beginning with ...
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