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

recites in theaters (not only in Rome, and

Giuseppe Verdi was in the audience in

Milan), and falls prey to a restlessness that

turns him into a wanderer and a stubborn

walker.

Pascarella’s poetry is born on the

threshold of Belli’s experience, which fades

away or takes on new connotations with the

rise of post-Unification nationalism and the

patriotic enthusiasm of the Risorgimento.

The model being followed was Carducci,

who will take a favorable interest in

Pascarella’s poetry, thereby generating an

almost disproportionate general

endorsement on the part of men of letters

and readers. So Pascarella, from Er morto de

campagna [A Dead man in the Country],

1882, goes on to Villa Glori (1886), tempted

by what Giorgio Barberi Squarotti has called