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

that is both lyrical and narrative.

Going on to southern Apulia, we have

already mentioned the particular cultural

position of this area, that at the beginning of

the Sixteenth Century produced a poet like

Galateo (Antonio De Ferrariis). The fact is,

that unlike other Apulian realities, this land

has granted dialect a life of dignity equal to

Italian, having always been the means of

communication of the cultured class and the

preferred choice in the Academies and

cultural gatherings. Therefore there are

many names worthy of mention: from

Lorenzo Casarano to Oberdan Leone (alias

Don Kaber) to Francesco Marangi (alias

Gamiran), Giuseppe Susanna, Giuseppe

Marzo, Salvatore Imperiale (inspired also by

the drama of emigration), Emilio Passeri, the

already mentioned Giuseppe De Dominicis

(alias Captain Black), till the contemporary