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

FRANCESCO PAOLO BORAZIO

Francesco Paolo Borazio (San Marco in

Lamis, Foggia, 1918-1953) worked as mason

and in stone quarries, while teaching himself

the study of literature. During Word War II

he was stationed in Yugoslavia, where he

contracted a lung disease. He lived in Imola

for a time, but later moved back to his home

town for good. In 1952 he founded with

some friends the cultural society “M. De

Bellis.”

His works, published posthumously, are:

Lu trajone [The Dragon], ed. M. Coco, A.

Motta and C. Siani, pref. F. Sabatini, San

Marco in Lamis: Quaderni del Sud, 1977; La

preta favedda [The echo], ed. S. D’Amaro, A.

Motta e C. Siani, pref. T. De Mauro,

Manduria: Quaderni del Sud/Lacaita, 1982.