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

Lecce: Manni, 1986; Un pianto nascosto, Turin:

Einaudi, 1986; Nun c’è pizze di munne, Milan:

Mondadori, 1992.

Criticism: on Pierro there is a vast, highly

qualified body of criticism, and we therefore

refer the reader to Omaggio a Pierro, edited

by Antonio Motta, (Manduria: Lacaita, 1982)

and to Giorgio Delia, La parlèta frisca di A.

Pierro, (Cosenza: Periferia, 1988), containing

the contributions of Umberto Bosco,

Gianfranco Contini, Tullio De Mauro,

Ernesto De Martino, Tommaso Fiore

(translator of the early collections),

Gianfranco Folena, Mario Marti, Emerico

Giachery, Pier V. Mengaldo, Ettore Paratore,

Giorgio Petrocchi, Giuseppe Petronio, Carlo

Salinari, Franco Brevini, Mario Chiesa, Mario

Dell’Arco, Antonio Piromalli (who has

published an essay with a large