Stories in Sanvitese
Sonno paesanu
A poem in the San Vito dialect about a dream: a villager finds himself on Mars, among Martians watering tomatoes, picking beans and spraying copper water, and on waking discovers that the planet was his own village.
I Vatu
A poem in the San Vito dialect about the countryside of the old days below the village: stones and brambles, wild flowers and fruit, the farmer working the land and Saint Blaise watching over the town.
A Befana
A poem in the San Vito dialect about the Befana of the old days: the stocking with a hole in it, the oranges left over from the year before, the rancid walnuts and an affection that lasted a lifetime.