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

characterization of a poetics focusing on

domestic and melancholy themes, which do

not exhaust the poet’s interests. He appears

to aim at avoiding the psychologically idyllic

posture typical of the poet from Romagna, in

favor of a personal approach to social themes

with a strong ethical element (Parini), but

without utopic temptations. And often

dialect is substituted by the common

language, even if in somewhat conventional

forms which betray various influences of

“schools” (Carducci and Padula, above all,

particularly consequential in the formal

characterization of the texts).

Nevertheless, Pane does not go too far

along this line. His emigrant’s psychology

induces him to dwell very frequently on the

reasons behind his longing for the places, the

sentiments, the objects he loved. Garibaldi,

in the long run, becomes an ever popular