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

politics, the separatism of Finocchiaro

Aprile, Gallo, Canepa was taking root.

Around De Maria gathered the dialect

poets Ugo Ammannato (1906-1959), Miano

Conti (1905-1957), Nino Orsini (1908-1982),

Pietro Tamburello (1910) and the very young

Paolo Messina (1923).

At the end of 1945 the meetings stopped,

as the Township decided to give the great

hall back to the Gallery of Modern Art.

Nonetheless, in that climate the groundwork

was laid for a radical renewal of Sicilian

dialect poetry, which would become more

evident in subsequent years, characterized,

according to Salvatore Di Marco’s

reconstruction, by the affirmation of the

literary value of the best Sicilian linguistic

tradition, discovering a project of koinè that

would bestow the literary dignity of

language to the Sicilian dialect.(...) In the