Giuseppe Tontodonati
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Giuseppe Tontodonati was an Italian
dialect poet.
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 Abruzzo Dialect (see his first work, "Storie Paesane" written in 1958 with an introduction by the poet Antonio Rinaldi).
Tontodonati wrote also text for several songs all with the music of M° Giuseppe di Pasquale.
Pubblicazioni postume:
Italy
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dialect poet.
Life
Giuseppe Tontodonati was born in AbruzzoAbruzzo
Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east...
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
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. On September 8, 1943, Italy signed the armistice and Tontodonati, like many other Italian soldiers was deported
Italian military internees
Italian military internees was the official name given by Germany to the Italian soldiers captured, rounded up and deported in the territories of the Third Reich in Operation Achse in the days immediately following the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces .After disarmament by the...
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 Abruzzo Dialect (see his first work, "Storie Paesane" written in 1958 with an introduction by the poet Antonio Rinaldi).
Tontodonati wrote also text for several songs all with the music of M° Giuseppe di Pasquale.
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" (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
Pubblicazioni postume:
- Musicassetta “ 10 Canti della Valpescara “ 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" – a cura e con introduzione di Marcello M. de Giovanni – Ediz. Comune di Scafa - copertina di Pietro CascellaPietro CascellaPietro Cascella was an Italian painter and sculptor.Cascella was born at Pescara into a family of ceramics artists. In 1938 he moved to Rome where he frequented the Accademia di Belle Arti...
(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)