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

E. Giammarco, Storia della cultura e della

letteratura abruzzese, Rome 1969; G. Jovine,

“La poesia dialettale molisana,” in Benedetti

molisani, Campobasso 1979; L. Biscardi, La

poesia dialettale molisana, Isernia 1983; F.

Brevini, Le parole perdute, Turin 1990; L.

Bonaffini, “Eugenio Cirese,” in Twentieth-

Century Italian Poets, First Series, Dictionary

of Literary Biography, Detroit-London 1991; L.

Biscardi, in La poesia dialettale del Molise. Testi

e critica, Isernia 1993.

In keeping with the critical perspective,

presently considered canonical, of the

Molisan poetic tradition in dialect ─

unfortunately we still do not have the

original manuscripts, nor the chronological

data or a philologically adequate edition of

the poetry of Raffaele Capriglione (1874-

1921) ─, we reconfirm, for now, the premise