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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 Royal Academy of Italy in 1930.
Pascarella was born in Rome and initially was a painter. His literary activity began in 1881 with the publication of sonnets in 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 began Storia nostra, a history of Rome which was planned as a sequence of 350 sonnets, but was left unfinished after 270 had been written.
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)
Posthumous publications:
- Italia nostra
- Taccuini (published in 1961 by the Accademia dei Lincei)
- Storia nostra (published in 1961 by the Accademia dei Lincei)
See also
References
- Rendina, Claudio (2000). Enciclopedia di roma. Rome: Newton & Compton.
Categories:- 1858 births
- 1940 deaths
- Italian writers
- Italian painters
- People from Rome (city)
- Ciociaria
- Members of the Royal Academy of Italy
- Italian writer stubs
- European poet stubs
- Italian painter stubs
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