Giuseppe Tontodonati
| Giuseppe Tontodonati | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 2, 1917 Scafa/San Valentino (PE), Italy |
| Died |
January 6, 1989 Bologna, Italy |
| Occupation | Italian Poet |
Giuseppe Tontodonati (February 2, 1917—January 6, 1989) was an Italian poet.
Life
Giuseppe Tontodonati was born in Abruzzo a region in central Italy in the small town of Scafa (Pescara province) in 1917. When he was a child he moved with his family to Pescara. In this large city he started to feel the influence of the arts and poetry.
From 1940 he was a soldier in Greece during World War II. On September 8, 1943, Italy signed the armistice and Tontodonati, like many other Italian soldiers was deported into the German Lager of Turgau and then Pieteritz until mid-1945. He returned, looking like a skeleton, to Pescara at the end of 1945.
On the 1959 he and his family moved to Bologna where he lived until his death on January 6, 1989. In Bologna he started to write poems using mainly Abruzzo Dialect (see his first work, "Storie Paesane" written in 1958 with an introduction by the poet Antonio Rinaldi).
Giuseppe Tontodonati, who wrote also texts for several folk songs all with the music of M° Giuseppe di Pasquale, is considered one of the most important dialect poet of the 20th century mainly for Abruzzo region but not only. For two times (1993 and 2011 after his death, Abruzzo Region Cultural Dept. published books about Tontodonati poems to reminde his activity. The last one - Da Lu Piccule Resurgemende a Porta Pije - L'Abruzzo dai moti carbonari all'Unità d'Italia fino a brigantaggio post-unitario - (2011) has been included from Abruzzo Region, into the official activity of the 150° year of Italian Nation celebration.
Works
- "Storie paesane", 1968 - prefazione di Antonio Rinaldi – disegni di Renzo Magnanini
- "Dommusè – Ballata Abruzzese", 1974 – prefazione di Giuseppe Rosato
- "Le Scafe", 1976
- "Canzoni abruzzesi", con musiche del M° Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Padre Donato), 1979
- Inno a San Bernardino da Siena (1980) e "Lauda a San Giovanni da Capestrano" Saint John Capistran (1986)
- "Storie Paesane", 2° ed. 1979 – prefazione di Italo Ghignone
- "Terra Lundane", 1980 – prefazione di Italo Ghignone
- "Rapsodia (Il Guerriero di Capestrano)", silloge in lingua, 1982 – pref. di Italo Ghignone
- "Sa' Mmalindine",1983 – prefazione di Umberto Russo
- "Canzoniere d'Abruzzo – sonetti ed altre rime", 1986 - prefazione di Vittoriano Esposito
posthumous publications
- Musicassetta (songs) “ 10 Canti della Valpescara “ (ten songs from Pescara walley) Musiche del M° Giuseppe di Pasquale versi di Giuseppe Tontodonati – Registrazione del Coro Valpescara diretto dal M° Giuseppe Di Pasquale 1992 –
- "Poesie inedite di Giuseppe Tontodonati", a cura di Vittoriano Esposito, edito dalla Regione Abruzzo, L’Aquila 1993
- "Vocabolarietto dell’uso Abruzzese - coinè dialettale Pescarese" – (Abruzzo Dialect Dictionary) a cura e con introduzione di Marcello M. de Giovanni – Ediz. Comune di Scafa - copertina di Pietro Cascella (2004)
- "Sam Biétre Céle" (Celestino V e l’Abruzzo) a cura di Umberto Russo e Marcello M. de Giovanni . Ediz. Assoc. Culturale “La Panarda” di Rosciano (PE) (2007)
- " Da Lu Piccule Resurgemende a Porta Pije - L'Abruzzo dai moti carbonari all'Unità d'Italia fino a brigantaggio post-unitario",con introduzione di Enzo Fimiani e commento di Giuseppe Parisio - edito dal Consiglio Regionale della Regione Abruzzo, 2011
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