Gianclaudio de Angelini began to publish his poems on Facebook as “posts”, in Italian and in Istriot (the Istriot-Venetian dialect spoken mainly in Rovinj and Dignano) and his haiku. And every time I read them, I admired them. And this, over the years, verse after verse, made me increasingly aware of their poetic value. So, one fine day not long ago, I decided to ask him to collect his poems in Italian and in Istriot and his lightning-fast haiku to explore the possibility of an anthology that would anthologically bring together the three threads through which he expresses himself.

And here is the book. I think that as I was impressed, you will be too.

One more word just for Istriot. It is a dialect that the exodus has emptied a lot, with its people who left the places where it was spoken, and with the arrival in those same places of people coming from various parts of the former Yugoslavia (inland Croats, Serbs, Kosovars) they have nothing to do with the past and the traditions not only linguistic of these areas.

Here, the value of Gianclaudio de Angelini's poetry in Istrian lies not only in its beauty and musicality, but also in being one of the last testimonies of his existence. For this reason, I asked the author to also give us a short essay in the book that reveals its history, for future reference.

Diego Zandel (from the Preface)

Gianclaudio de Angelini, The eyes of Lavinia [poems], Oltre edizioni, Sestri Levante 2021, 100 pp.

The volume is available in bookstores from June 25th and can also be purchased on the publisher's website:
http://www.librioltre.it/biblioteca/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=3581