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

Salvatore di Natale ─ unfortunately not

included here for reasons of space ─ and

Tommaso Pignatelli is, without any doubt,

the most seasoned and substantial in quality.

It is as if these poets were being pushed by

an anxious storm that sweeps clouds and

rubble and washes the most beautiful and

famous Gulf in the world to restore that

sense of music that belongs to it almost

fatally, but each of these figures inhabits his

space with a self-awareness that has gone

through the fire of controversy, not only

poetic, but also philosophical, of the

intellect, as is in the best Neapolitan

tradition. And of course, without the

support ─ shattered, tormented, interiorized

and even vanified ─ of the intellect there can

be no great poetry, but only sketches,

vignettes, impressions.

Perhaps this is the starting point of the