Delio Tessa

Delio Tessa (18 November 1886 – 21 September 1939) was an Italian poet from Milan who wrote dialect poetry.

He dedicated the free times deepening Milanese dialect literature as: Carlo Porta, and started to write some comedies and film scripts like: Vecchia Europa, postume published on 1986.

Except the collection of poems L'è el dì di mort, alegher!, all his works have been published posthumously.

The topics of his poetics are the drama of the World War I and of the daily life of neglects, revised in personal way and caring very much about the sonority of the lines.

Often the topic of the dead women is present, with a pessimism and distrust of personal and cultural origin (Scapigliatura, decadentism, Russian novel, expressionism).