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

satirizes the middle class and the

qualunquisti, but is unable to repay even the

disinherited. Everyone remains fixed in that

static condition of dwarfism that in his eyes

characterizes the People of Reggio (“They

are dwarves, and want everybody to be a

dwarf”).

Essential Bibliography:, For the works cf.

N. Giunta, Poesie dialettali, edited by A.

Piromalli and D. Scafoglio, Reggio Calabria

1977.

Criticism: P.P. Pasolini, op. cit.; S.

Gambino, Antologia..., cit.; R. Troiano, cited

article; C. Sicari, in Historica, 1980, 2; Nicola

Giunta, l’uomo, l’opera, edited by the

Municipal Administration of Reggio, Reggio

Calabria 1980; Le parole di legno. Poesie in

dialetto del Novecento italiano, edited by M.

Chiesa and G. Tesio, Milan 1958; F. Brevini,