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

MARIO PINNA

Born in Oschiri (Sassari) in 1918, Pinna

received a degree in literature from the

University of Pisa, where he attended the

Scuola Normale Superiore. He was a high

school teacher and a lecturer on Spanish and

Spanish-American language and literature at

the University of Padua. In the academic

years from 1962 to 1965 he also taught Italian

Philology at the University of Madrid.

In specialized reviews and in books he

has published essays on Spanish and

Spanish-American literatures, contributing

to some of the most important literary

journals, such as Belfagor, Il ponte, Quaderni

Ibero-americani, Annali della Ca’ Foscari, Annali

dell’Istituto Orientale universitario di Napoli

(AIO), L’Albero and others.