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GIUSEPPE JOVINE
Giuseppe Jovine was born in
Castelmauro in 1922 and lives in Rome,
where he has worked as a teacher and
secondary school principal. He has been a
frequent contributor to dailies and
periodicals, mainly in the area of literature
and criticism, also with two full-length
books: La poesia di Albino Pierro [The
Poetry of Albino Pierro], Rome, 1965;
Benedetti molisani [Blessed Molisans],
Campobasso, 1979. But it is with dialect
poetry that Jovine secures a significant
position in twentieth-century Molisan
poetry in dialect: Lu pavone [The Peacock],
Bari 1970, 2nd edition with unpublished
poems and a preface by Tullio de Mauro,
Campobasso 1983) and now the original
translation into Molisan dialect of poems by