Nostalgici pensieri. [n.p.]: [Cincinnati], [n.d.].

poetry

Dedicated by author Novelli to his "consort" Iolanda. This copy is inscribed by Novelli to his friend, Theodore Gantz. The bookseller who sold me this work (or a prior owner) noted that Novelli is from Cincinnati, and lived from 1904-1990. As the work is self-published, it seems a reasonable guess that the work Cincinnati should be, in brackets, the presumed locus of publication.

This amateur poetry, in Italian (but the first one translated as well), is treacly, or as the title notes "nostalgic" verses, some in praise of his apparent Italian hometown of Fuscaldo, a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Cosenza in Calabria. 

Novelli is not one of the relatively small number of poets appearing in Poeti Calabresi in America of Pasquale Spataro.

Frank Novelli

18x11cm; 25 p.