Francesco Benozzo Explained

Francesco Benozzo (born 22 February 1969) is an Italian poet, musician and philologist. He works as a Research Fellow in Philology at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Biographical notes

Author of long epic poems about natural landscapes,[1] Benozzo usually composes them orally and then performs them with his harp (the last two published are Felci in rivolta / Ferns in revolt [2015])[2] and La capanna del naufrago / The Castaway's Shack [2017].[3] Since 2015 he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature[4] for his poetry in defence of natural places and for his use of techniques belonging to the ancient tradition of oral poetry.[5] In 2016, on the official webpage of the Swedish Academy, he was consecrated by the international readers' jury as the most worthy author for the prize itself.[6]

In his revolutionary book Speaking Australopithecus (written together with the archaeologist Marcel Otte) he argues for a much greater antiquity of human language than has usually been presumed in recent research (according to which it was born with Homo sapiens at the end of Middle Paleolithic – 50.000 years ago – or at the most with some Neandertal, 200.000 years ago), providing linguistic and archaeological evidence for seeing the appearance of human language with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.[7] He is the author of more than 700 publications, including academic works on oral poetry, shamanism, anarchism, ethnophilology, the Paleolithic continuity theory, and the problem of landscape in literature.[8] He is the general editor of the international journals "Philology" (Peter Lang publisher, Bern-Oxford-New York), "Quaderni di Semantica" (Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, Italy) and "Quaderni di Filologia Romanza" (Pàtron editore, Bologna, Italy).

As a songwriter and harpist, he released 11 CDs, produced in Italy, Denmark and UK (the last published is Ytiddo BPB - Benozzo Performs Bowie [2017]),[9] reaching an international wide appeal (two special mentions at the Edinburgh Folk Awards, one prize as "Best album of the month" assigned by the magazine "RootsWorld", and for two times the National Italian Musical Prize "Giovanna Daffini").[10] He represented Italian poetry and music in different international happenings, including the Rich Text Literature Festival in Cardiff (Wales), the Tradicionarius Festival in Barcelona (Spain), the Stanza Poetry Festival in St. Andrews (Scotland), the Festival Literario de Madeira (Portugal), and the Printemps des poètes (France)[11] He performed in Rome together with the Nobel Prize Wislawa Szymborska.[12]

Discography

Main Poetry Books

Main Philological books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Francesco Benozzo, "Onirico" | Poesia, di Luigia Sorrentino . Poesia.blog.rainews.it . 23 July 2014. 2015-08-15.
  2. Web site: Sito in manutenzione. 12 November 2015 .
  3. Web site: Poesia, di Luigia Sorrentino. 15 April 2017 .
  4. Web site: Carlo Gregori . Il Pen Club candida al Premio Nobel il modenese Francesco Benozzo, poeta dei paesaggi - Tempo libero - Gazzetta di Modena . Gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it . 2015-07-26 . 2015-08-15.
  5. Web site: "Corriere della Sera": Benozzo candidato al Nobel. Francesco Benozzo. Unibo.it. 2015-08-15.
  6. Web site: Who Deserves a Nobel Prize? . www.nobelprize.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141002234920/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/who-deserves.html . 2014-10-02.
  7. http://cesmap.it/speaking-australopithecus-a-new-theory-on-the-origins-of-human-language-by-francesco-benozzo-and-marcel-otte/[http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/Marcel_Otte/home/ouvrages/speaking-australopithecus/{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} /]
  8. Web site: Francesco Benozzo . Francesco Benozzo — University of Bologna — Publications . Unibo.it . 2015-08-15.
  9. Web site: Sito in manutenzione. 23 November 2017 .
  10. Web site: Sito in manutenzione.
  11. Web site: Festival Literário da Madeira . Festivalliterariodamadeira.blogs.sapo.pt . 2014-10-27 . 2015-08-15.
  12. Web site: Francesco Benozzo & Wislawa Szymborska . YouTube . 2007-07-13 . 2015-08-15.

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