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

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Ten years after the Liber that outlined his

whole human and artistic iter, Ottaviano

Giannangeli published a chapbook of short

poems, Arie de la vecchiaiae, in which his

lyric talent reaches heights of considerable

beauty. With a few, vaguely defined

suggestions (the sound of an old song or

cheerful stornelli, the peals of a bell, views of

the town, poplar leaves and cut hay,

mysterious echoes that accompany the voice

of the Beyond), he grafts, in the memorial

recovery of a world undone, the heart-

rending melancholy of life passing.

The Litanie per Maria, published recently

(while thre present work was in its advanced

stages), is a splendid confirmation of the his

past achieve¬ments.

Criticism: A. Narducci, “Canti della terra

d’Abruzzo e Molise,” in Prospettive