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

He also published a critical edition of

Vittorio Clemente’s works.

Giannangeli, better known as a literary

critic and poet in Italian, deserves an

important place as a lover of dialect poetry

as well, as witnessed by the intense work

done since early youth, documented in the

large volume Lu libbre d’Ottavie (1979). This

is a book that marks an important moment

in the history of poetry, not only in Abruzzi,

for its actual stylistic achievements, for the

variety of experiences that subtend it, and

for the conspicuous quantity of theoretical

reflections that accompanies it, as the

attached Appendice dei codici linguistici

amply demonstrates.

Il libro d’Ottavio presents a vast gamut of

motivations, ranging from lyric urgency to

elegiac testimony, to the ethical-civil

imperative, and even to social concerns. The