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

work of the younger Lino Angiuli, born after

the Second World War. His is no longer the

difficult recovery of a disappearing tradition,

of something forgotten; it is instead a

mutilated and intermittent language,

wedded to a sometimes harsh and bitter

irony that knows it can avail itself of only

the shreds of a transfigured people.

More diversified appears to be the dialect

landscape of the Capitanata. The intimist

generation of Filippino M. Pugliese,

Giovanni De Cristofaro and Alfredo Petrucci

(with the exception of a satirist such as

Saverio Napolitano in the middle of the

Nineteenth Century) also includes a

noteworthy poet like Giacomo Strizzi, keen

and delicate painter of his small rural world.

But there are other surprises. The ironic and

satirical vein of Enrico Venditti, the “dark

and melancholy” muse (Dell’Aquila) of Gino