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

the Fifties by Eugenio and Alberto Mario

Cirese, who published the two volumes of

Canti popolari del Molise (Rieti, 1953) (in 1953,

meanwhile, came out Lucecabelle, by E.

Cirese and in 1955, posthumously, Poesie

molisane) and founded the review of

popular history and literature La Lapa (1953-

55), which heralded future times much more

responsive to the messages set down in its

pages by Ernesto De Martino, Paolo Toschi,

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Diego Carpitella,

Giuseppe Petronio and other important

experts in the field; this climate would be

felt in the province also, which arranged for

the publication (1952) of the III and IV

volumes of Masciotta’s Molise, once again

called upon to act as the historiographic

basis for the region’s autonomistic design,

which was realized a few years later (1963),