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

Sera, Feb. 28, 1960; U. Ojetti, Più vivi dei vivi,

Milan: Mondadori, 1938; P. P. Pasolini,

Passione e ideologia, Milan: Garzanti, 1960; L.

R u s s o , Salvatore Di Giacomo, Naples:

Ricciardi, 1921; K. Vossler, Salvatore Di

Giacomo, ein neapolitanischer Volkdichter in

Wort, Bild und Musik, Heidelberg: Carl

Winter’s Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1908).

It might be useful, in order to better

understand the poet, to add information

about his life and some suggestions for

further reading, even if some interpreta-

tions and judgments have been indicated in

the general introduction.

Salvatore di Giacomo was born in Naples

in 1860. He enrolled in the School of

Medicine but withdrew because of the

horror he felt every time he went into the

anatomy room, as he himself recounts in an