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

GIUSEPPE JOVINE

Giuseppe Jovine was born in

Castelmauro in 1922 and lives in Rome,

where he has worked as a teacher and

secondary school principal. He has been a

frequent contributor to dailies and

periodicals, mainly in the area of literature

and criticism, also with two full-length

books: La poesia di Albino Pierro [The

Poetry of Albino Pierro], Rome, 1965;

Benedetti molisani [Blessed Molisans],

Campobasso, 1979. But it is with dialect

poetry that Jovine secures a significant

position in twentieth-century Molisan

poetry in dialect: Lu pavone [The Peacock],

Bari 1970, 2nd edition with unpublished

poems and a preface by Tullio de Mauro,

Campobasso 1983) and now the original

translation into Molisan dialect of poems by