In memory of the poet Michele Sovente, ten years after his death

Civic Wave celebrates the poet Michele Sovente from Cappelle, winner of the Viareggio prize in 1998, ten years after his death.

The special 'Ricordo del poeta Michele Sovente' will be broadcast on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th on Campi Flegrei tv and on the pages Official Facebook.

Wednesday 24 March 2020 at 18 pm with a repeat Thursday 25 March at 21 pm 'Ricordo del Poeta Michele Sovente' will be broadcast ten years after his death which falls on March 25. The special will be broadcast on Campi Flegrei tv (channel 555 and 877 of Digital Terrestrial) and its official Facebook page.

Onda Civica civic, political and cultural movement through the special 'Ricordo del Poeta Michele Sovente' intends to contribute to renewing the memory and deepening the inspiration of the poet from Monte di Procida born and lived in Cappella, deeply rooted in his territory, his attachment to the ancient history that crossed the Campi Flegrei was great.

The following will take part in the journey to discover our poet for the special 'Ricordo del Poeta Michele Sovente': Nicola De Blasi, Professor of History of the Italian Language at the Federico II University of Naples, the Doctor of Modern Philology Marianna Illiano, the Doctor of Research in Philology Giuseppe Andrea Liberti at the Federico II University of Naples. Also speaking from Cappella will be: Antonio Nestore Sabatano representing the Sovente family and President of the 'Associazione Culturale Michele Sovente', Antonella Guardascione and Mariarosaria L'Astorina who have been active in the area for a long time. Michele Sovente's poems will be interpreted by the young theater actor Emanuele Cangiano of the local company 'Archè'. The special will be hosted by the journalists: Maria Rosaria Bacchetta, a historic face of Campi Flegrei tv, and Floriana Schiano Moriello, among other things, a representative of Onda Civica.

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He was born in 1948 in Cappella, known for being the original nucleus of the municipality of Monte di Procida, where he died on March 25, 2011. During his life he was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, an essayist and a poet.

He has published numerous books of verse: L'uomo al naturale (1978), Contropar(ab)ola (1981), Per specula aenigmatis (1990), Alla Madre (1993), Cumae (1998), Carbones (2002), Carta e formiche (2005) Bradyseism (2008), Superstiti (2009). From 2004 to 2011 he edited the poetry column 'Controluce' for the daily newspaper Il Mattino.

In 1998, the publication of Cumae earned him the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize. With this extraordinary work, Sovente introduced trilingualism, which would become the distinctive feature of his production. In fact, he wrote in Italian, Latin and dialect without distinguishing areas and genres and used the three languages ​​with equal communicative dignity. For our poet, Latin represented the language of his ancestors and testimony of an ancient world; dialect, on the other hand, was the mother tongue par excellence, the idiom of childhood and of a world that had passed but not disappeared, and finally Italian represented the language of literature and life.

Michele Sovente, tireless singer of the anxieties of existence, of the contradictions of our time and our land, a man of culture in the round, was able to embody the most ancient and authentic soul of his Phlegraean land, also through the hilarious interpretation of the human comedy. Onda Civica together with the Associations operating in the territory intends to continue to investigate, feels a strong duty to make known the figure of the poet from Capella who contributed to making his land known in Italy and abroad, thanks to the appreciation for his works. In this vein, Onda Civica will want to continue with activities that can enhance the poetry and history of the illustrious poet alongside the promotion of the entire territory starting right from Cappella, also focusing on schools, of all levels, and on young people.

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