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

(Tornimparte), Angelo Semeraro (Sulmona).

Among all of them, a particular mention

deserves Raffaele Fraticelli (Chieti), who

more than anybody else has been able to

raise the Christian message to intensely

poetic tones, as witnessed by several works,

paramount among which are Parole de

Vangele [Gospel Words], 1975 and Golgota

(1983).

Civil and social themes, aimed at

denunciation, protest, moral revolt against

the evils and injustices caused by a culture of

medieval origin as well as by the malaise

typical of a consumer-oriented industrial

society, have also found wide acceptance.

Numerous and noteworthy are the names to

be mentioned, above all: Pasquale Cianciusi

(Collelongo), Giuseppe Gualtieri (Aielli), but

emigrated to Detroit), Romolo Liberale (S.

Benedetto dei Marsi), Luigi Susi (Trasacco),