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

VITTORIO CLEMENTE

Vittorio Clemente was born in Bugnara

(L’Aquila) in 1985. After attending the

Scuola Normale di Tivoli, he taught in the

rural schools of Abruzzi, later becoming a

principal and school inspector. He died in

Rome in 1975. Besides dialect literature, he

took interest in folklore, literary criticism,

children’s narrative and literature, dialect

theater.

During World WAR I, he collaborated

with Ardengo Soffici in La Ghirba and Il

Gazzettino del Soldato. His sonnet,

“Malingunie” [Melan¬choly], appeared in

those years. Several works in dialect

followed: Prime canzône, [First Songs], Rome,

1924; La Madonna Addulurata, [Our Lady of

Sorrows]: Sulmona, Angeletti, 1925; Sia