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{{Short description|Italian poet}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer]] -->
| name = Giuseppe Tontodonati
| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|02|02}}
| birth_place = [[Scafa
| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|1|06|1917|02|02}}
| death_place = [[Bologna]], [[Italy]]
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==Life==
Giuseppe Tontodonati was born in [[Abruzzo]], a region in central Italy in the small town of Scafa (Pescara province) in 1917. When he was a child, in 1925, he moved with his family to Pescara. In this large city he
From 1940 he was a soldier in Greece during [[World War II]]. On September 8, 1943, Italy signed the armistice and Tontodonati, like many other Italian soldiers, was [[Italian military internees|deported]] at first to the Stammlager IV/B Mühlberg-Elbe registered with number IV/B 244512, and then moved to the Lager of Turgau and then Pieteritz / Wittenberg as soldier/worker IMI by the local Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke, until mid-1945. Several poems written by Tontodonati in these concentration camps, are direct testimony of his terrible experience. He returned, skeletal in appearance, to [[Pescara]] at the end of 1945.
In 1959 he and his family moved to [[Bologna]], where he lived until his death on January 6, 1989.
==Works==
*"Storie paesane", 1968
*"Dommusè – Ballata Abruzzese", 1974 – prefazione di Giuseppe Rosato
*"Le Scafe", 1976
*"Canzoni abruzzesi", con musiche del M° Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Padre Donato), 1979 , introduced by Ottaviano Giannageli and illustrated by Vito Giovannelli
* Inno a [[Bernardino of Siena|San Bernardino da Siena]] (1980) e "Lauda a San Giovanni da Capestrano" [[Saint John Capistran]] (1986)
*"Storie Paesane", 2° ed. 1979 – prefazione di Italo Ghignone
*"Terra Lundane", 1980 – prefazione di Italo Ghignone, printed by La Regione (Pescara)
*"Rapsodia (Il Guerriero di Capestrano)", silloge in lingua, 1982 – pref. di Italo Ghignone, printed by La Regione (Pescara)
*"Sa' Mmalindine",1983 – prefazione di Umberto Russo, printed by La Regione (Pescara)
*"Canzoniere d'Abruzzo – sonetti ed altre rime", 1986 - prefazione di Vittoriano Esposito, printed by La Regione (Pescara)
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== Posthumous publications on topics linked to Canzoniere and Poesie Inedite ==
* "Vocabolarietto dell’uso Abruzzese
* "Sam Biétre Céle" ([[Celestino V]] e l’Abruzzo) a cura di Umberto Russo e Marcello M. de Giovanni. Poems about the Pope Celestino V
* "Da Lu Piccule Resurgemende a Porta Pije
* "Recurde Pescarise" all the poems written by Tontodonati about the city of Pescara. Illustrated by Mimmo Sarchiapone and introduced by Daniela D'Alimonte, Nicola Mattoscio and Raffaello Tontodonati. Published by Fondazione PescarAbruzzo, printed by Ediz. Menabò (Ortona) (2019)
==Publications about Giuseppe Tontodonati==
* " Rivista La Regione" November 1989
* "Terra Lundane
==External links==
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[[Category:Italian male poets]]
[[Category:Italian-language poets]]
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