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

The publication and critical recognition

of Borazio’s works has taken place only

many years after his death: from the

linguists Sabatini and De Mauro who

presented them in a volume, to the

anthropologists and critics De Nola,

Bronzini, Dell’Aquila and Augieri who have

underlined their cultural and literary

significance. During his brief lifespan (35

years) he had the capacity and will to

become self-taught, to write many poems in

Italian and finally move on to dialect with

the utmost awareness. It was a fruitful

apprenticeship that produced numerous

handwritten notebooks, a small etymological

dictionary, a few sheets-newspapers (one of

Borazio’s inventions, a sort of satirical-

popular publication with vignettes and

varied pleasantries). The author from the

Gargano area, then, immediately felt the