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

utterance or oral enunciation that turns it

into sound, verbal music, after having been

steeped in a sort of personal myth: of the

earth that has nourished it, of the people

that have formed it, of the waters that have

made it smooth, of the wind, the affections,

the misfortunes, the sun (love), the shadow

(death). And everything becomes narration,

word spoken to himself but addressed to

others through the years that flow ever

identical yet apparently different over a

human race reduced to insignificant

accident.

The Attic flavor of the ancient tongue

imbues a discourse capable of orchestrating

the technical and rhetorical devices of

versification, which can confer such new

dignity to the vernacular register that the

common language appears almost

subordinate by comparison, especially with