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

APULIA

The fervor of studies that since the

middle 60’s has witnessed the emergence of

the “question of language” in Italy in a

radically renewed light is due to a few

scholars and cultural and educational

promoters. Consider Tullio de Mauro, his

Storia linguistica dell’Italia Unita [Linguistic

History of Unified Italy] ─ whose first

edition by Laterza came out in 1963 ─ with

far-reaching consequences both at the of

socio-linguistic and at the pedagogic-

didactic level. The analysis revealed the close

relationships existing between “linguistic

policy” and the organization of culture,

between socio-economic transformations

and the persistence in broad sectors of the

population of a vision of the world that was

static and passively dependent on