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

MAURO MARÈ

Mauro Marè was born in Rome in 1935

and is a practicing notary public. He has

always lived in strict contact with the

cultural and artistic circles of the capital,

frequently becoming a friend of the most

important critics and poets. His last books of

poetry can be considered a revelation, the

real novelty of Roman dialect poetry, and I

would add one of the novelties in Italian

poetry to follow closely.

Having started out rather modestly, as

shown in any case by his sonnet, from the

best-known experiences of Belli and Trilussa,

he has later taken a different route in search

of his own style, which makes a clean break

with convention and is characterized by

sparkling linguistic inventions. It should be

stressed, however, that these inventions are