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

that “the exceptionl nature of the metrical

forms and stylemes is even more surprising”

than in his own Friuli (op. cit., ), if on the

one hand goes back to medieval laudi no

less, on the other hand it is imbued with the

singing, very musical rhythm of certain

Spanish poetry, especially from Latin-

America. And at this point one can mention

the name of the Spanish poet who more

than any other has had a decisive, and no

doubt preponderant, influence on all

Sardinian dialect poetry, namely García

Lorca, the lesser Lorca of “Lament for

Ignacio” and Romancero gitano. Aside from

the aedic nature of this poet (and Sardinian

poetry is born as poetry meant to be recited,

as at any rate has always happened in public

squares and as still happens now and then

during festivals and town feasts), in much of

the Sardinian dialect poetry there is a