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

mentioned, there are many more who, in

different measure, have contributed to the

enrichment of the rather substantial

landscape of dialect poetry.

The consolidation of a literary

consciousness that has adopted dialect as a

highly connotative and fully legitimated

instrument in the contemporary Babel of

artistic languages is paralleled by the revival

of a neo-positivistic culture more and more

aggressive and open to the multiple spheres

of knowledge, and actively at work in

institutional centers of learning, at the local

and national level: evidence of this are

critical editions of the significant works of

the poets of the historical tradition

(Giuseppe Altobello, Domenico Sassi,

Michele Cima), of authors like Berengario

Amorosa, of La Lapa, the review of Cirese

father and son; the studies by Luigi Biscardi