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

SALVATORE DI GIACOMO

In the Mondadori volume of I meridiani

entitled Poesie e prose (1977), Elena Croce

reminds us that “The complete bibliography

of the writings of Salvatore Di Giacomo,

collected by F. Schlitzer in the volume

Salvatore Di Giacomo. Ricerche e note

bibliografiche, edited by G. Doria and C.

Ricottini (Florence, Sansoni, 1966), crowded

with librettos, pamphlets, articles, single

issues, bibliographical rarities, reeditions,

reprints, consists of 1543 entries until Di

Giacomo’s death.” With the passing of time

and interest in the poetry and theater of Di

Giacomo never flagging, the number has

increased and it would be therefore, if not

impossible, cumbersome and perhaps even

misleading to offer here an endless list of