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

dialettali [Dialect Sonnets], 1979, included in

a series edited by Gianni Oliva for the

publisher Cannarsa. Habits, customs, events,

figures, but also personal sentiments in

relation to changing occasions constitute the

material that inspired Murolo.

Also from Vasto is Luigi Anelli (1860-

1933), known mainly as a historian and

playwright, author of a collection of forty

sonnets, Fujj’ammesche [Mixed Leaves], 1892,

in which he draws “small scenes,” “slices of

reality,” fragments of town life, with the

criteria typical of traditional sketches,

nevertheless capable of showing glimpses of

real drama.

Worthy of mention, among a few more

names appearing between the end of the last

century and the beginning of the present

one, are Luigi Renzetti (1860─ 1931), from

Lanciano, with Fiure de fratte [Hedge