Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)
dialect. One of the most surprising facts to emerge from some of the interviews is the poets’ selection of Italian as the langua ...
keeping with a radical formulation by Pascoli: “the language of poetry is always a dead language.”^10 Despite the difficulty of ...
Poidomani (Carrube e cavalieri [Horse Bread and Gentlemen], 1954) or Salvatore Spinelli (Il mondo giovine [The Young World], 195 ...
inspired by ideals of peace and justice, Polizzano kept in mind Mazzini’s lesson on rights and duties; there is no common good i ...
Nino Martoglio, from Catania (1870- 1921), famous playwright and comedy writer of the Sicilian theater (his works are the mainst ...
maxim: “describe your village and you will be universal”; with the master of Russian narrative he shared a vocation for realism ...
a n d Nni la dispensa di la surfara [In the Storeroom of the Sulfur Mine], 1910 ─ but he is not naïf. A cultured poet, he approp ...
Mario Gori (1926-1970) sings of the dissolution, with the feud, of the rural civilization, while poverty continues to afflict th ...
socialist, followed the revolutionary line of George Sorel. The poet’s great-grandchild, Vito Mercadante Jr., looking through so ...
“dogma” of the impersonality of the writer. In the language of his land he sang the epic deeds of garibaldi in Lu Sissanta (1910 ...
enchantments. Of course, there are also compositions with strong social contents, equally distributed. Mercadante can write inte ...
Brancati), went back to the romantic roots of Verismo, in a poetry aiming at inner analysis, to the consideration of man in the ...
Leopardi’s “Ginestra”: everything is resolved in the desolation of the sciara or in the barrenness of lava; the only comfort can ...
Saggi di canzoni siciliane [Samples of Sicilian Songs], 1925. His first attempts were translations into Italian from Heine and d ...
his research on folklore in the same area. He was a lover and philologist of the Ibla vernacular and prepared for his students, ...
to himself most of all ─: To me poetry is born at times Italian at times Sicilian: and every time necessarily so, I think: Sicil ...
letters, so his populism is not mannered. Michela Sacco Messineo writes: The voice of the workers and farmers of Ragusa echoes i ...
debut in 1922 with Sangu sicilianu [Sicilian Blood], followed by Amuri [Love] (1923) and La Santuzza (1927). His first organic c ...
in sestinas, of Collodi’s Pinocchio. It is not a “translation”: the poet made it his own, recreated from within in verses of adm ...
Battaglia) through La Trazzera. Buttitta first b o o k , Sintimentali [Sentimental], had appeared in 1925: a collection still sh ...
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