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

even the famous notaries of transformations

of Balzachian memory, they come to terms

with rhymes, wink at rhetoric, at coarseness.

Dell’Arco feels the need, since Taja ch’è rosso

[Cut that It’s Red], of 1946, to purify the stale

air being breathed. That is why he rejects the

frequently baroque and plodding

commentaries of the last decades and

entrusts himself to the suggestions of the

heart, yet never allowing them absolute

freedom, dell’Arco language being vigilant

and even rigorously calibrated. A scrupulous

scholar, but with a manly and open

crepuscular soul, he has in any case proved

he can handle even more traditional

subjects, such as The Sack of Rome and The

Rape of the Sabine Women, realizing works

that legitimately follow the line of Italian

poetry, but correcting it with the

mischievousness comparable to that of the