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

Romantic writers and veristi, will not die

easily and favors versifiers of diverse

temperaments equally distributed among

Terra di Bari, Capitanata and Salento.

In the Bari area, various generations born

between the epoch of Umberto I and

Fascism ensure a more or less successful

tradition. They are Peppino Franco, Gaetano

Savelli (famous for the dialect translation of

Dante’s Comedy) Vito Barracano, Vito De

Fano, Vito Maurogiovanni (who is also a

noted playwright), Pasquale Sorrenti

(tireless student of things Apulian), Gianni

Custodero. None of them attains the results

of someone like Giotti, Noventa or Marin,

but in the regional sphere they have been

able to develop a dialect capable of

mediating between past and present, and to

strike both the lyric and the narrative chord.

Upon these experiences is grounded the