Note 328 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
The books which I have consulted on this branch of vernacular poetry are (1) Tommaseo, Canti popolari toscani, corsi, illirici e greci, Venezia, 1841. (2) Tigri, Canti popolari toscani, Firenze, 1869. (3) Pitré, Canti popolari siciliani, and Studi di poesia popolare, Palermo, 1870-1872. (4) D'Ancona, La Poesia popolare italiana, Livorno, 1878. (5) Rubieri, Storia della poesia popolare italiana, Firenze, 1877. Also numerous collections of local songs, of which a good list is furnished in D'Ancona's work just cited. Bolza's edition of Comasque poetry, Dal Medico's of Venetian, Ferraro's of Canti Monferrini (district of Montferrat), Vigo's of Sicilian, together with Imbriani's of Southern and Marcoaldo's of Central dialects, deserve to be specially cited. The literature in question is already voluminous, and bids fair to receive considerable additions.