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

other hand, if he had not brought about that

enrichment, he would have remained

entangled in the seductiveness of the ariette

which, while seemingly scorned by

everyone, in fact are still capable of exacting

extraordinary loyalty.

Serrao’s critical bibliography is already

considerable and one can add to the names

of Loi, Brevini, Spagnoletti and Vivaldi at

least those of Angelo Mundula, Francesco

Piga, Dante Maffia, Maria Lenti, Giammario

Villalta, Luigi Fontanella, Lucio Zinna,

Cosma Siani, Idolina Landolfi, Eugenio

Lucrezi, Roberto Giannoni.

Achille Serrao was born in Rome, where

he lives, in 1936.