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

this reason, between the spontaneous,

instinctive cadences of vernacular usage and

the rigorous metric codification of the

sonnet. Nor should it surprise us, on the

other hand, that he chose a “classic”

expressive structure like the sonnet, in a

period rife with Twentieth-Century

experimentation that reached the province

as well, as witnessed by the abundance of

articles in the Molisan press in the aftermath

of W.W.I, since this choice is in keeping with

his conservative ideas and the Eighteenth-

Century origin (in imitation of Carducci’s

classical style) of his intellectual

development.