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

archaic, but also “pithy” manifestations of

popular life, or rather rural life, since the

sources of inspiration for his creativity were

the community, work, the seasons, the

customs of Molisan farmers in the first

decades of this century.

It is on this twofold track that moves the

poetic invention of the author from

Campobasso, who conferred nothing

authentically new and original to “rustic”

literary tradition, which had been grounded

for centuries on the classic, ambivalent

relationship between city and country,

urban and rural, civil and instinctive, which

entailed the adoption of this double

representation of the naturalistic, rustic

element (the country as the privileged place

of natural harmony, peacefulness and

oblivion, bucolic alternative to the chaos and

noise of the city, to turmoil and anxiety, but