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

volume Ultima linea (1959).

Much more meaningful and more

assiduously long-lasting, on similar

positions, is the experience of Vittorio

Clemente (1895-1975), from Bugnara

(L’Aquila). Though he had already received

recognition for his youthful work, Prime

canzoni (1924) and La Madonna Addulerata

(1925), it’s in the aftermath of W.W. II that

he attains wide acceptance and authoritative

endorsements that establish him as one of

the most active and valid figures of dialect

poetry at the national level. From Sclocchitte

(1948) and Acqua de magge (1952) to Tiempe

de sole e fiure (1955), Canzune ad allegrie...

(1960), Serenatelle abruzzesi (1965),

Clemente follows a very personal path, until

he attains a style all his own, which takes up

and continues the cultured model of “local