Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

experimentation capable of achieving

modern solutions even through

contamination.

Essential Bibliography: for Pane’s works,

cf. the anthology Le Poesie edited by G.

Falcone and A. Piromalli (Soveria Mannelli,

1987), who contribute two stimulating

introductory essays (on which cf. L. Reina, in

Poetica, 1990, 10-11). The following

collections are represented: L’uòmini russu,

Trilogia, Viole e ortiche, Sorrisi, Peccati, Lu

calavrise ‘ngrisatu, Accuordi e suspiri, Rapsodia

garibaldina, along with songs with popular

intonations and translations into dialect of

texts by Carducci, Stecchetti, Pascoli, Padula,

Marradi, Cordiferro. A Previous anthology

of his poems, which marked the beginning

of Pane’s success in Calabria, was edited by

G. Rocca (Musa silvestre, 1930; then reedited