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

GIUSEPPE ROSATO

Giuseppe Rosato was born in Lanciano in

1932, where he has recently returned to live.

He taught literature in secondary schools.

He has published: La cajola d’ore [The Golden

Cage], Lanciano: Cet, 1955); L’acqua felice

[Happy Water] Milan: Schwarz, 1957); Ars

oratoria e altro [Ars Oratoria and Other

Things] Manduria: Lacaita, 1974);

Autodidattica e altre moralità [Self-teaching

and Other Moralities] (ibid., 1980); Prova di

commiato [Farewell Rehersal], Milan:

Edizioni Trentadue, 1982; Esercizio di lettura

[Reading Exercise], Manduria: Lacaita, 1984;

Lettere della quinta lontananza [Letters of the

Fifth Distance], Pescara: Questarte Libri,

1984; the novel Un regno è un regno [A

Kingdom is a Kingdom], Milan: Edikon,