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

the birth of the Italian language (Da mihi

illum panem: da mi il pane).

The phenomenon this time concerns the

other regional idioms that interact among

themselves and with the Roman dialect, thus

creating a new romanesco, just as effective,

even though it’s very different from the one

used by Belli, for example. This has

somewhat authorized the dialect of Mauro

Marè, who lives on innovations and

inventions as he looks for poetry through a

language fashioned by him and capable of

realizing the thing in the sound.

This premise was necessary because a

dialect, spoken by millions of people and

with a considerable written tradition behind

it, does not have the same problems and

significance of a dialect spoken by a few

hundred people and without a written

tradition in its past. Not to mention that