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

mysterious about poets like Fernando

Baldini and Sandro Zanotto who have been

insisting for years on the parallel between

those poets who write in the various dialects

and those who employ Latin. There are some

distinctions to be made, no doubt, for

instance the patrimony of works the Latin

language has behind it and the nothing,

often, or the almost nothing dialects have

behind them, but as far as the results are

concerned the analysis does not change nor

can the approach. Michele Sovente, already

author of L’uomo al naturale [Natural Man],

published in 1978 by Nuove Edizioni Enrico

Vallecchi and Contropar(ab)ola, put in print

in 1981 by the same publisher, after an

assiduous contribution to journals such as

Alfabeta, Poesia, Linea d’ombra, Il Belli and Il

Mattino, has published Per specula-aenigmatis: