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

poetry, had clear in his mind what was

happening in that never really clarified

relationship between dialect and language.

These theoretical statements are even more

striking because they were made by a poet in

odor of high style and adopted by Carducci

the critic. Should not the opposite have

happened? Or was it enough for Carducci to

simply look at the themes Pascarella dealt

with?

Carducci had understood that for

Pascarella dialect had not been a mere

expedient and therefore he introduced him

to readers with that fervor that at the time

contributed to erasing so many of the

misunderstandings and fears stemming from

the Unification of Italy.

In order to show that Roman dialect (but

also any other dialect) could attain results

equal to if not better than those achieved in