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

of Feasts], Minghe e Peppe [Minghe and

Peppe].

Criticism: L. Biscardi, La letteratura

dialettale molisana fra restauro e invenzione,

Isernia 1983; G. Faralli, in Poesia dialettale del

Molise. Testi e Critica, Isernia 1993.

Elegy and irony, memorial projection

and ludic intention, regret and playful

“divertissment” constitute the score of the

poetic world of Giuseppe Altobello, doctor,

epigone of that aristocratic southern

“gentlemanliness,” conservative and

paternalistic, bound to traditions, to the

ethical order, to a “human” measure of

living, that was able to reconcile his

professional and scientific role (which was

significant: Altobello was an ornithologist

with a solid national reputation) with the

emotions and the simple, spontaneous,