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

and poems with southern themes, in

addition to the compendium of the 1988

dialect poetry award. With Andrea Mancusi

and Angelo Vito Stolfi, it is mainly the

physician Franceso Galasso, who died in

1992, who has honored the dialect of

Avigliano, gathering in ‘Nda lu bèllevere [In

the Belvedere] (Lavello, Finiguerra) sonnets,

poems, songs and prayers, that succeed in

attenuating the sentimentality with which

the provincial world is often looked upon

with a vision that can capture the drama and

the tensions of the people of Avigliano. In

this idiom, showing extensive Latin roots,

are evident both Appenine and Neapolitan

forms, with slight traces of the Puglia type.

Domenico Chieffo, published L’acqua d’ la

funtanedd [The Water of the Little Fountain]

(Appia 2 and then Osanna Ed., 1980) in the