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

1882.

Pascarella’s life was later a succession of

trips (to Japan, North America, Africa,

Egypt, South America, India) of which there

are traces in the Taccuini [Notebooks],

Milan: Accademia dei Lincei, 1961, witty and

often very effective pages, that show the

poet’s caustic power of observation and his

pictorial, as well as human, eye. But there

are also the journeys through Italy, some of

them on foot, like the one through the

Ciociaria. Thus his contributions include

reports, short essays, descriptions of places,

of types, of areas, and he tackles even certain

humorous topics, as in the case of Il

manichino [The Mannequin], 1885.

Incidentally, a careful study reveals that

Luigi Pirandello had an earnest interest in

Pascarella’s volume.

Between trips he publishes his work,