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

hypotheses are perhaps referable to the use

of language in Belli, that is intimidating and

makes his disciples revolve around

themselves (The case of Corazzini dialect

poems are an exception).

It is probable that Mario dell’Arco, raised

in the cult of all preceding and

contemporary Roman dialect poetry (he was

born in 1905, Pascarella died in 1940 and

Trilussa in 1950), saw more than one motif

lacking in the tradition (such as sentiment

itself) and had the complete vision of a

repetition of recurrent topos only apparently

varied. The virginity of dialect, mentioned

by the author of Villa Glori, capable of

decanting the profound sense of history and

to radically transcribe facts, has at least

suffered a laceration: the capital’s dialect

mulls over stale reflections of a world fallen

into disuse. The various poets are no longer