By Elettra Bedon [Souce ] Andrea Zanzotto (ritratto di Paolo Steffan) The dialect part is minimal in Andrea Zanzotto's work, yet anything but unimportant, if only for the questions raised by the poet's attitude toward his local idiom. Born and raised in it, he still turns to it daily, since most of the time he resides in Soligo, yet his renown is due to the interest that critics and essayists have devoted to his writings in Italian. His first work in dialect known to the public at large is Filò, solicited by Fellini for his Casanova. (I said the "public at large "because the verses of Filò are not really the first verses in dialect; as the author himself wrote to me personally (Nov. 30, 1997): ...I wrote in dialect, almost as a félibre, when I was about seventeen, and then on social occasions and for graduations... I went back to a dialect experience through fragments that surface in the Italian of my verses (around 1965), so that by 1969 I had...