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

FRANCESCO GRANATIERO

Francesco Granatiero (Mattinata, Foggia,

1949) lives and works in Turin as a

laboratory physician.

After a few volumes in Italian he

published: A ll’acchjitte [Sheltered from the

Wind], Turin, 1976; U iréne (The Wheat),

pref. by G. Tesio, Rome: Dell’Arco, 1983; La

préte de Bbacucche [Bacucco’s Stone], intr. by

G. Tesio, Mondovì: “Ij babi cheucc”, 1986;

Énece (Nesting Egg), pref. by P. Gibellini,

Udine: Campanotto, 1994; Iréve [Abyss],

Monte S. Angelo: Comunità Montana del

Gargano, 1995.

He has sharpened his expressive

instruments working on a Grammar of the

Mattinata Dialect (Foggia, 1987) and a

Dictionary of the dialect of Mattinata-Monte S.