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

from Amantea; Attilio Romano from Paola,

Domenico Teti from S. Nicola di Crissa,

Paolo La Cava from Reggio Calabria,

Mimmo Staltari from Locri, Teodoro Torchia

from Castelsilano, Gino Bloise from Cassano

Jonio, Pasquale Cavallaro from Caulonia...

The fable instead inspires the poetry of

Vittorio Butera (1877-1955). His fables,

however, are very particular, and have very

little to do with those of Trilussa, for

example, to whom he has been compared

nevertheless. The poet from Calabria does

not share the same skeptical vision of life.

And when he takes aim against the baseness

of the human spirit (hypocrisy, intrigues,

vanity, ambition, deceits), he does not limit

himself to denigrating it by turning it into

corrosive, shouted satire, but repre¬sents it

and clearly postulates his faith in the

possibility of overcoming it.