Sebastiano Satta

Sebastiano Satta is one of the best Sardinian poets of all time. Lawyer and journalist, he wrote highly appreciated verses in Sardinian and Italian. He was born in Nuoro in 1867. He did his military service in Bologna and was familiar with Carducci's poetic work. He studied law in Sassari. After graduating, he practices the legal profession, distinguishing himself for his profound skills and elegant eloquence. Particularly important are the “Rebel Verses”, a collection of poems with which he began in 1893. The ode “First May” dates from 1896; the “Barbarian Songs” from 1910. The “Songs of the Jump and the Saddle” were published posthumously in 1924.
Sebastiano Satta's poems stem from a profound humanity. He loves Barbagia, his native land, rude and beautiful at the same time, appreciating every aspect of it, even the darkest. Committed to social issues, Satta does not hide feelings of sympathy and respect for the large group of bandits who, in order to escape capture, went wild. According to the poet from Nuoro, the bandits were nothing more than men who had become like stray animals, who, with their outlawed deeds, demonstrated a barbaric rebellion against an unjust and unacceptable social order. Sattian poetry therefore highlights the whole tragedy of unfortunate Sardinia, immortalized as a prefectious mother: “mother in black bandages who is great and proud in a thought of death.” Stung by paralysis, the poet spent the last six years in painful immobility, dying in Nuoro, in 1914, at only 47 years old.

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