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

guerra: discurzi di cafuni [The War: Peasants’

Talk], Campobasso, 1912; Ru cantone della fata

[The Fairy’s Rock], Pescara, 1916; Suspire e

risatelle [Sighs and Laughter], Campobasso,

1918); Canzone d’atre tiempe [Song of Times

Past], Pesaro, 1926); Rugiade [Dew],

Avezzano, 1938; Lucecabelle [Fireflies], Rome,

1 9 5 1 ; Poesie molisane [Molisan Poems],

posthumous, Caltanissetta, 1955. Also

worthy of mention is Gente buona [Good

People], Lanciano, 1925, a regional school

primer ─ in keeping with the new directives

of Gentile’s reforms and of the pedagogical

ideas of Lombardo Radice ─ that confirms

his mastery of the cultural anthropological

patrimony of the region, repository of his

dialect poetic world.

Criticism: P. P. Pasolini, “Un poeta in

molisano,” in Passione e ideologia, Milan 1960;