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

overdoing it. It has been chorally written

that he was able to untangle himself from

the knotted skein of Verismo and was able to

free himself from the limitations of the local

sketch, thanks to that very innate grace that

prompted him to measure theatrical effects

without distorting into caricatures or

“figurines” certain portraits smelling of

times past, but also capable of gazing beyond

the curtain of the present. His works should

be examined as they evolved, in order to

understand that he was gradually able to

find adequate means to express content and

subject matter fashionable at the time, but

without turning them into stereotypes or

depriving them of that subjective dimension

capable of breathing life into a description, a

sentiment, an emotion. The subject matter of

his verse is that of the southern repertory of

the time, yet the obvious and the trite have