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

LUIGI ANTONIO TROFA

Luigi Antonio Trofa was born in

Ferrazzano (Campobasso) in 1879 and died

in 1936. Having begun his career in the

cavalry, he abandoned it because of his

intolerance of military discipline, later

becoming an employee in Campobasso’s

Financial Administration. He carried on an

intense activity as a journalist, collaborating

with regional journals such as Il Gufo, Sci-ta-

bum, Il Foglietto, etc., transferring into some

even the verve of his Futurist experiences

and at any rate making a deep mark with his

presence on the Molisan periodical

publications from 1911 to the early Thirties.

In the thick volume Rime allegre [Happy

Verses], Campobasso, 1928, Trofa gathers his

vast and uneven writings in Italian, while