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

GIUSEPPE ALTOBELLO

Giuseppe Altobello was born in

Campobasso in 1869, where he died in 1931;

doctor, musician, scientist, linguist, poet, he

was a versatile figure with a multifaceted

culture, as shown by his studies and research

on the fauna: Saggio di ornitologia italiana

[Essay on Italian Ornithology] has been

recently reissued with a preface by

Corradino Guacci (Isernia, 1990). Altobello’s

entire poetic works have been collected in

the volume Sonetti molisani [Molisan

Sonnets], Campobasso 1966, 2nd ed. 1982,

edited by Nina Guerrizio, containing both

the published collections, Da lu fronte [From

the Front], Campobasso 1918; Poesie dialettali

[Dialect Poems] Campobasso 1926 and those

unpublished: Trascurrenne de le feste [Talking