Alessio di Giovanni

Alessio di Giovanni (Cianciana, 11 October 1872 – Palermo, 6 December 1946) was an Italian poet, novelist, and playwright.^[1] Much of his work is in Sicilian.^[2]

di Giovanni was born in the Cianciana in the province of Agrigento on October 11, 1872^{[citation needed]} to parents Gaetano di Giovanni and Filippa Guida. His father owned a large holding of the countryside around Cianciana including several sulfur mines. Di Giovanni's later poetic works were influenced by the rugged mountains and isolated fields of the Platani Valley^[3] in which his birthplace of Cianciana can be found. His father, in those years, was elected mayor of Cianciana for three consecutive terms, from 1876 to 1884 . Alessio then spent his childhood in the small town of Agrigento, attending elementary schools from 1878 to 1884. At age 12 he moved with his family to Palermo, Sicily.^[4]

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• Popular songs from Agrigento , Noto, Zammit, 1894.
• ' Ntra l'aira , Catania, 22 November 1896.
• Maju sicilianu , Naples, Chiurazzi, 1896.
• Lu fattu di Bbissana , Naples, 1900.
• Fattuzzi razziusi , Naples, 1900.
• A lu passu di Girgenti , Catania, 1902.
• Lu cuntu di lu patruni , Palermo, June 1901.
• Saccular clouds , November 29, 1903.
• La minnitta , December 8, 1903.
• Return amaru , December 20, 1903.
• In the Valplàtani , Palermo, 1904.
• Cristu , Palermo, 1906.
• Za Francischedda , Palermo, June 3, 1910.
• Nini's pantry from la zurfara , Palermo, 1910.

• ' Nfernu veru , Naples, Chiurazzi, 1899.
• Lu puvireddu amurusu , Palermo, 1906.
• Father Luca's poem , Palermo-Milan, 1935.
• The seat cu li vrazza , Palermo, 1911.
• Vènnari di marzu , Palermo, 1911.
• Voices of the feud , Palermo, 1938.

• The deaths of lu Patriarca , Palermo, 1920.
• The racina of Sant'Antoni , Catania, 1939.
• Lu saracinu , Palermo, 1980.

• Story of a woman , Sicilian Chronicle, Terranova di Sicilia, April 10, 1889.
• For a popular poet, Popular illustration, Milan, February 15, 1889.
• Na dumanna to Turiddu Mamu , La Patria, 15 September 1889.
• Art at the Exhibition , Friend of the people, Palermo, January 7, 1892.
• For the lamp of the Madonna , Corriere di Palermo, Palermo, July 1892.
• The inventor of phonographs , La fenice, Girgenti, 4 September 1898.
• On the sacred Verna , Gazzetta di Messina and Calabria, Messina 26 May 1904.
• Holy week in Valplatani , January–February 1907.
• The seat cu li vrazza , Corriere di Sicilia, Palermo, February 12, 1911.
• Vennari of March , Corriere di Sicilia, 11 April 1911.
• Our articles in Felibre , Corriere di Sicilia, Palermo, 12 May 1911.
• In the field of felibri , Corriere di Sicilia, Palermo, 27 February et seq. 1911.
• From felibri , Il Solco, Palermo, January 1912.
• A poet priest and a chivalrous brigand , Corriere di Sicilia, Palermo, 1912.

• Saru Platania and dialectal poetry in Sicily , Naples, 1896.
• Peasants from Valdelsa and villagers from Realmonte , Naples, 1900.
• In Val di Noto , Sicula, Palermo, January–February 1905.
• The Modica Costume Painter , May–June 1905.
• The poetry of a loner , Palermo, Coop. Tip. Sicilian, 1913.
• The art of Giovanni Verga , Palermo, 1920.
• The Franciscan dream , Assisi, 1922.
• The Sicilian dialect in the work of Verga , Siciliana, Catania, January 1923.
• The dialect and the language , Palermo, 1924.
• The modernity of the Franciscan ideal , The Tradition, Palermo, 1928.
• Verga and the felibrige , Studies by Verga, Palermo, 1929.
• Priests and Franciscans of Sicily in the Garibaldi Epic of 1860 , Palermo, 1932.
• The Life and Work of Giovanni Meli , Florence, 1934.

• Scunciuru , Noto, Orecchia, 1895.
• Gabrieli lu Carusu , Palermo, Maraffa Abate, 1910.
• The Last Sicilians , Catania, 1932.
• Sicilian theater , collection, Catania, 1932.

• G. Pascoli, Abandoned , November 3, 1903.
• G. Roumanille, Provençal tales , Palermo, 1913.
• T. Aubanel, The Virgins of Avignon , Milan, 1914.
• M. Jouveau, Image Flourentin, Avignon, 1921.
• The Fioretti di San Francesco , Palermo, 1926.
• A. Pisaneschi, The voices of the mountain , Pistoia, Grazzini, 1926.
• G. Verdaguer, The poem of St. Francis , Assisi, 1927.
• G. Jorgensen, Olivae Fructus , Florence, 1929.