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Domenico Tempio

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Language
  
Italian/Sicilian

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Domenico Tempio

Children
  
one daughter

Spouse
  
Francesca Longo


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Born
  
August 22, 1750 Catania, Italy (
1750-08-22
)

Died
  
February 4, 1821, Catania, Italy

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Domenico Tempio (1750–1821) was an Italian writer who mainly wrote in the Sicilian language or dialect. During his lifetime, he was considered a major poet, and was much praised, but after his death his work was largely forgotten, until a reawakening of interest following the second world war. His poem La Caristia ("The famine"), describing a famine and rioting in Catania in 1797-98, is regarded as his major work.

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Works

  • Operi di Duminicu Tempiu catanisi (1814-1815) is a collection of his poetry, edited by Francesco Strano. The best-known poems are L'Odi l'Ignuranza Supra, The Maldicenza sconfitta, Veru Piaciri Lu, The Mbrugghereidi, The Numi Scerra di li, Lu cuntrastu allayed, PACI di Marcuni, Li and Li Pauni Nuzzi.
  • The Caristia (1848), is his most important work, published posthumously by Vincenzo Percolla. It is a poem in twenty cantos.
  • Tempio di Domenico Poesie (1874) is the second edition of his works, with many additions.
  • Erotic poetry was collected in 1926 by Raffaele Corso Di Vincenzo and by Maria and Santo Cali in 1970.

    • References

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