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

VITO RIVIELLO

Vito Riviello was born in Potenza in 1933,

and has been living in Frascati since 1972,

working in radio broadcasting and art

criticism. He has published Città fra paesi

[City Among Towns], Milan: Schwarz, 1955;

L’astuzia della realtà [Reality’s Cunning],

Firenze: Vallecchi, 1975; Dagherrotipo

[Daguerro-type], Milan: Scheiwiller, 1978;

Sindrome dei ritratti austeri [Syndrome of the

Austere Portraits], Bergamo: Il Bagatto, 1980;

Tabarin, Rome: Rossi e Spera, 1985; Assurdo e

familiare [Absurd and familiar], Rome 1986;

Apparizioni [Apparitions], Rome 1989.

In prose he has written: Premaman

[Maternity], Potenza 1968; La neve all’occhiello

[Snow at the Buttonhole], Francavilla sul

Sinni 1987; Qui abitava Pitagora [Pythagoras