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

necessity of bringing dialect and Italian face

to face, also because his land, still deeply

agricultural and pastoral, did not offer any

literary tradition at the time of his vocation.

In so doing, he was able to find stylistic

deviations and interferences well-suited to a

written expression that could cut corners

precisely because it was free from deference

to convention.

All this, even though Borazio kept his

hometown, San Marco in Lamis, very

realistically, as a privileged reference point:

which really is his world, or rather the

symbol of the world to be elevated to

autonomous artistic discovery. In addition to

numerous compositions that range from the

pathetic to the elegiac, from depiction of the

landscape to local color, from parodic to

moralizing emphasis, Borazio has bestowed

his greatest energies on the realization of Lu