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

happening in Molise, while instead in the

other Italian regions, especially central and

northern regions, with really century-old

traditions, in those same years dialect poetry

was substantially in decline: see, for

example, Piedmont, with only M. Costa and

G. Pacotto; Lombardy, with only Delio Tessa

(cf. L’è di mort, alegher!, 1932); Veneto, with

the few collections of G. Piva (cf. Cante

d’Àldese, 1930; Bi-ba-ri-bo, 1934) and V. Giotti

(cf. Caprizzi, 1928 and Colori, 1941); Liguria

with E. Firpo (cf. O grillo cantadò, 1931 and

Fiore in to gotto, 1935) and A. Acquarone (cf.

Discorsi e confidenze, 1928 and A scoverta

dell’America, 1932); Emilia Romagna, where

only A. Spallicci is notably active; Marche,

Umbria, Rome, Abruzzi, where the

production in dialect is extremely limited.

But even southern regions reveal the same