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

MARIO DELL’ARCO

Mario dell’Arco is the pseudonym of

Mario Fagiolo. He was born in Rome in 1905

and has been living in Genzano for several

years.

He worked as architect and publisher,

without ever neglecting his activity as a poet

and as a determined and tireless advocate of

the defense of dialect in general, not only

Roman dialect. He founded and edited the

reviews Il Belli, Il nuovo Belli and Il nuovo

Cracas. He became known to readers in 1952

for having collaborated with Pier Paolo

Pasolini at the historic anthology Poesia

dialettale del Novecento [Dialect Poetry of

the Twentieth Century] published by

Guanda.

His work as an essayist has also been

prolific: Lunga vita di Trilussa [The Long Life