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

FERDINANDO RUSSO

As did Di Giacomo, Ferdinando Russo

also dispersed in myriad publications his

writings which, as a well-known journalist,

dealt with the most heterogeneous and at

times unthinkable topics. He had a

penchant, exhibited without ambiguity, for

exploring subjects that in the eyes of

conventional wisdom seemed “vile and

unnecessary,” but at the same time he could

forcefully examine situations, of a social

nature as well, with a confidence that

bespoke of a great knowledge of life. Given

the impossibility, even in this case, to

provide the long list of the bibliography of

the works (which in recent years has seen a

flowering of clandestine editions,

philologically inaccurate even in the critical

apparatus, when there is one) we refer to Le