1979.
1 Vann’Antò, Il fante alto da terra, Messina: Principato,
1932, p.10.
2 cf. Vann’Antò, Voluntas tua, Rome: De Alberti, 1926,
p.88.
3 cf. Vann’Antò, ‘U vascidduzzu, Messina, Il Fondaco
dell’OSPE, 1956. The poet was inspired by a revolt caused in
Ragusa 1-6-1945 by the draft order for even those returning
from the lager, to take part in the war against the Germans
in Italy; the revolt was attributed at times to the separatists
at times to the Fascists, but it was “only an outpouring of
grief, a desperate cry against war itself.” (p.16)