Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)
A Piano in the Night A piano in the night plays softly, off somewhere; a sigh comes through the air, borne upon the melody. It’s ...
Dint’o ciardino A vi’ llà, vestuta rosa e assettata a nu sedile, lisciatanno st’ addurosa e liggiera aria d’abbrile, cu nu libbr ...
se vo’ sósere, mm’afferra, rire e strilla: ─ Uh! no! no! no!... ─ Dentro il giardino ─ La vedi là; vestita di rosa / e seduta su ...
In the Garden All in pink, upon the seat in the garden, see her there as she breathes in the sweet and tender April air; a book ...
tries to rise, takes hold of me, laughs and calls: ─ Uh! no! no! no!... ...
(Cont.d) Na lacerta s’è fermata e ce guarda a tutte e dduie... Se sarrà scandalizzata, sbatte ‘a coda e se ne fuie... da Poesie ...
(Cont.d) A passing lizard, surprised, stops and stares at what he sees, then, as if scandalized, quickly flicks his tail and fle ...
A Capemonte Sotto a chist’arbere viecchie abballaveno ‘e cape femmene, cient’anne fa, quanno s’ausevano ventaglie ‘avorio, polve ...
Si se licenzia, nun c’è che fa’, nun torna a nascere, nun vene cchiù!” Capodimonte ─ Sotto questi alberi vecchi ballavano / le d ...
At Capodimonte Under these trees a hundred years ago great ladies danced, the fairest of the fair, in days when ladies carried i ...
They go, and there’s no strength can hold them here, no remedy to make them live again. ...
(Cont.d) E si risponnere, luntana e debule, mo n’ata museca ve pararrà, allicurdateve de chelli femmene ca nce ballaveno cient’a ...
(Cont.d) And if you seem to hear now, far away and faint, an answering music on the air, remember how a hundred years ago those ...
Na tavernella... Maggio. Na tavernella ncopp’ ‘Antignano: ‘addore d’ ‘anèpeta nuvella; ‘o cane d’ ‘o trattore c’abbaia: ‘o fusto ...
Antignano: odore / di nepinella fresca; / il cane del trattore / che abbaia: la botte del vino / davanti alla porta: / la gallin ...
A Little Inn... May. At an inn above Antignano: everywhere the sweet aroma of fresh calamint in the air; the innkeeper’s dog nea ...
FERDINANDO RUSSO As did Di Giacomo, Ferdinando Russo also dispersed in myriad publications his writings which, as a well-known j ...
poesie, edited by Carlo Bernari: Naples, Guida, 1984. For the critical bibliography, besides Bernari’s work, we suggest Luigi Re ...
Mattino for one of his disputes) and had contacts with the camorra, even following very well known judicial cases, such as those ...
culture. Croce did not have a high regard for him, he considered him to be like so many other Neapolitan poets who wrote smooth ...
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