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

Pesce d’Oro, 1992;, Lu Nicola va alla guerra

[Nicola Goes to War], ibid., 1994..

Criticism: D. Moro, preface to Crònache e

paràbbule, cit.; A. Vallone, Nuova Antologia,

April 1972; D. Valli, L’Albero, 48, 1972; N.

Carducci, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, April

3, 1979; M. Marti, Rassegna salentina, January-

April 1981; id., in La letteratura dialettale in

Italia, a cura di P. Mazzamuto, Palermo:

Società Grafica Artigiana, 1984; G.

Spagnoletti, Il Belli, 3, 1992.

Someone has aptly mentioned the subtle

relationship binding Gatti’s “land” to De

Donno’s “town” (Poesia dialettale dal

Rinascimento a oggi, p. 1009). The latter is also

from the Salento area (Maglie) and has

elevated the local dimension to the

paradigm of a universal condition,

concerning the human as well as natural