Cesare Pascarella

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Cesare Pascarella (28 April 1858 - 8 May 1940), was an Italian dialect poet and a painter. He was appointed to the Accademia d’Italia in 1930.

Pascarella was born in Rome and initially was a painter. His literary activity began in 1881 with the publication of sonnets in the Romanesco dialect. In the same period he made friends with Gabriele D'Annunzio. He made a series of journeys through Africa, India and the Americas in 1882–1885. On his return to Rome he published the collection Villa Glori, who was hailed as a masterwork by Giosuè Carducci. Also well received was the imaginative La scoperta dell'America (1893).

In 1905 Pascarella begun Storia nostra, a history of Rome which was planned as a sequence of 350 sonnets, but was left unfinished after 270 had been written.

[edit] Works

• Er morto de campagna (1881, sonnets)
• La serenata (1883, sonnets)
• Er fattaccio (1884, sonnets)
• Villa Glori (1886, sonnets)
• Cose der monno (1887)
• L'allustra scarpe (1887, philosophy)
• La scoperta dell'America (1893, sonnets)
• I sonetti (1900, sonnets)
• Le prose (1920, prose works)
• Viaggio in Ciociaria (1920)

Postumous publications:

• Italia nostra
• Taccuini (published in 1961 by the Accademia dei Lincei)
• Storia nostra (published in 1961 by the Accademia dei Lincei)

[edit] See also

• Romanesco

[edit] References

• Rendina, Claudio (2000). Enciclopedia di roma. Rome: Newton & Compton.