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

whose features were changing gradually. He

was observant of the shifting reality, in

which he was able to capture certain

postulates in the blossoming of a new

conception of culture and of the world, but

without giving in to easy enthusiasm or

consolidated certainties.” A full-relief

portrait, truthful, but which does not

exclude the critical orientation that sees

Russo as an attentive describer of the

Neapolitan spirit, indulging here and there

in pathos and sentimentality, “which the

programmed naturalism is not capable of

concealing.”

He died in Naples in 1927.