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

publications. On the other hand,

indispensable might be the work cited

above, edited by Elena Croce and Lanfranco

Orsini, and certainly the complete collection

o f Poesie e Novelle [Poems and Stories], of

Teatro, of Cronache [Cronicles], in two

separate volumes, published in Milan by

Mondadori in 1946 and edited, respectively,

by Francesco Flora and Mario Vinciguerra.

Unfortunately, the same applies to the

critical bibliography on Di Giacomo which is

replete with contributions and important

names. Excluding those studies that have

privileged the strictly Neapolitan aspects as

well as those concerning the theater, the

short stories, the prose in general and works

of erudition, some essential indications are

given below in alphabetical order:

(T.H.Bergen, in The Nation (New York),