of a people, a nation.”^20
Since the anthology is meant primarily
for foreign readers, we have preferred to
give a selection of rather well-known texts:
many of these, in fact, have become tunes
sung even by famous tenors or American
singers.
One should keep in mind that an
anthology is always like sipping precious
liquor, a small advance, a promise.
NOTES
1 Alberto Consiglio, Antologia dei poeti napoletani:
Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1973.
2 Ibid, p.36
3 Mario Chiesa-Giovanni Tesio, Le parole di legno. Poesia
in Dialetto del ‘900 italiano: Milan, Oscar Mondadori, 2 vls.,
1984.
4 Ibid., p.8
5 Ettore Bonora, “Il dibattito sulla letteratura dialettale
dall’età veristica a oggi,” in Giornale storico della letteratura
italiana, CLVIII, 1981.
6 Cf. Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento: