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

Flowers]; Ettore d’Orazio (1860-1931), from

Villetta Barrea, author of a considerable

output, from which only four sonnets have

survived, with the explanatory title La

disgrazia di Paulantonie o puramente U

carcerate ‘nnucente; Giovanni de Paulis (1861-

1959), from Paganica, well known as painter

and sculptor, who, in a collection of forty-

one sonnets, marked by a plain and incisive

style, recounts the misadventures of a poor

“emigrant” farmer who “returns from

Argentina”; finally, Gabriele D’Annunzio

(1863-1938), the “Immagi-nifico,” who did

not disdain, all taken as he was by the

cultivation of high style, to tackle a dozen

dialect compositions, all tied to an occasion

and playful in tone, among which we would

mention the quatrains on the Pescara

“parrozzo” [type of pastry] (“To Luigino

D’Amiche”) and the “pork sonnet” (“To