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

JOSEPH TUSIANI

Joseph Tusiani (San Marco in Lamis, FG,

1924) was for many years professor of Italian

Literature in several American universities.

A multilingual and prolific writer of verse as

well as prose, has published in English Rind

and All: New York, Monastine, 1962; The Fifth

Season, New York: Obolensky, 1964; Gente

mia and Other Poems, Stone Park IL: Italian

Cultural center, 1978; in Latin Carmina latina,

edited by E. Bandiera, Fasano: Schena, 1994;

in Italian the three volume autobiography La

parola difficile, 1988; La parola nuova, 1991; La

parola antica, 1991, Fasano: Schena. Very vast

is his work as a translator of international

repute: The complete Poems of Michelangelo;

Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered and Creation of the

World; Bocaccio’s Nymphs of Fiesole; The Age