Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was just beginning his brilliant career as a novelist, poet, and playwright when this volume of poetry was published in 1901. In that same year he published his first novel, "L'esclusa" ("The Shunned Woman"). This volume of poems, named after the bagpipes used by Italian shepherds in the south, is signed by Pirandello and inscribed "to the poet Guido Mazzoni." Other well-known works by this author include the novel "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904), and the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1920). "Kaos", a film version of three of his short stories, was produced by the Taviani brothers in 1984.