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

after decades of parliamen¬tary battles, thus

legitimizing the presence, cultural as well, of

Molise in the national context. It also

spurred not only research into the past,

critical and historical “classifications,”

rediscoveries, but also the arousal of the

pressing expressive needs of a human world,

historically and ethically self-defined, that

precisely in the Sixties and Seventies was

undergoing for the first time the unforeseen,

unplanned drama of widespread industrial

and technological progress and of the advent

of the mass media.

In this framework should be seen

initiatives such as the reprint of the

published and unpublished poems by

Giuseppe Altobello, dialect poet of the first

generation (Sonetti molisani, 1966) and the

publication of the Prima antologia dei poeti