For the category of the Other and the subaltern, see Young’s Postcolonialism, particularly part 5, ‘Formations of Postcolonial Theory Notes to pages 87–8 211 8 The ‘poesia rusticana’ originates in the strambotti (one-stanza poems in hendecasyllables, usually an octave or sextet), one of the most ancient Italian popular verse forms, and rispetti (stanza of eight […]