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

over Italian. It is more proper because it is

more concrete, because it has not been used

by sublime minds for many centuries for

metaphysical speculations and every word

gives immediately the idea of the thing it

represents, without having other

representations weaken that certainty.”

Pascarella speaks of “dialectal

language...more proper and more concrete

than italian,” that is, he insists on the

possibility (certainty, in his case) that the

Roman dialect can contain in the sounds the

precise idea of the thing uttered by virtue

also of the fact that it still has not been

weakened, contaminated or rendered vague

by tradition. The question here becomes

interesting and lays the foundation for the

ideas that Loi and Giacomini have been

advancing for some years. Which means that

Pascarella, whatever the achievements of his