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

poesie, edited by Carlo Bernari: Naples,

Guida, 1984.

For the critical bibliography, besides

Bernari’s work, we suggest Luigi Reina,

Ferdinando Russo ─ Popolarità, dialetto, poesia:

Napoli, Ermanno Cassitto Editore, 1983.

Ferdinando Russo was born in Naples in

1866. He was a member of the group formed

by Arturo Colautti, Gabriele D’Annunzio,

Matilde Serao, Edoardo Scarfoglio, Angelo

Conti, Roberto Bracco, who undertook a

frenzied literary and journalistic activity in

Naples between the end of the last century

and the beginning of ours. In the Mattino, he

ran a column of wordly and literary events,

raising endless controversies, to the extent

that he even criticized Di Giacomo for

possible errors or improprieties in the use of

the Neapolitan language. He was passionate

and exuberant (he was expelled from the