Title |
Biografia de Melchiorre Murenu - Melchiorre Murenu's Biography |
Depositor |
Mr. Raffaele Ladu <raffaele.ladu@intesys.it> |
Dialect of |
Sarule, Nuorese Family |
Source |
The biography has been written by the depositor after some information taken from "Il meglio della grande poesia in lingua sarda - Edizioni della Torre" |
Copyright |
Raffaele Ladu (1996) |
Comments |
Enjoy! |
Una Biografia |
A Biography |
| Melchiorre Murenu idi naschiu in su 1803 dae Ziu Battista Ledda (Murenu
idi o s'ingiuriu,o su numene 'e sa mannai 'e imamma sua) in sa zittade
'e Macumele. Issu i benniu zegu cando aviada tres annoso, ca avia piccau
su vaiolu. Ma unu espertu 'e sa letteradura sarda, su Canonicu Spano, nada
chi iucchia una vaccia nighedda ed espressiva, ed una conca longa meda
(sos Sardos sun famosos pro sa longhia e sa conca issoro); e cand'er mortu
su dottore 'nde l'had'accattau unu cherveddu mannu de ispantu.
A deghe annos, su babbu suo veni postu in presone (es borzisi er mortu in ie), e su familiu suu finidi in miseria. Melchiorre non podiad'imparare a leghere e iscriere, ca su codice Braille non l'aviana ancora imbentau; ma issu aviada memoria vona, e andande sempere a missa, imparande sas preicas e sar letturas 'e su Vangelu e de sa Bibbia, er resessiu a si hacchere una cultura religiosa e mitologica, nezessaria como e a su tempus suo pro hacchere su poeta in "limba". Si leghides Grazia Deledda, ispezialmente su contu suo "Canne al Vento", iscuprides chi sos mendicantes sardos (ed unu zegu non podiad esser atteru a su tempus 'e Melchiorre) ziravan sas festas de sos Santos de Sardigna pro mendicare; Melchiorre imbeces las ziravada pro improvvisare poesias, ed had gasi leau su lumene de "Omero de sos poveros". Ma si Omero idi unu poeta eroicu, Melchiorre Mereu idi unu poeta satiricu, e probabilmente una satira de sas suas l'hat mortu: in su 1854 tres ommines lu muttini cuss'iscusa 'e lu vattire a su amicu suo Maloccu (unu poeta vonu che a Melchiorre, lumenau "su Prinzipe de Fonne"), ma cando su poeta venidi, issos lu ghettana ind'unu burrone occhidendelu. De sa poesia chi bos hacco leghere si nada chi est'ista' issa a pilisare su chi hat chertu su poeta mortu; ma es puru beru chi issu hachia sa satira de meda zente importante, ispezialmente de sos libertinos (o sas libertinas) - i calecunu podioada haere ordinau sa morte sua. Ma in ateras poesias Melchiorre protestavada contro a su malu destino de sa povera zente, i contro a sos abusos chi sas leghes hattas dae su Governu Piemontesu pro abolire su regimene feudale aviana leadu - e su Canonicu Spano pessada chi borzisi est'istau custu tema de sos suos a li vattire sos mortales inimicos suos. |
Melchiorre Murenu was born in 1803 of Ziu Battista Ledda (Mureddu
was either his nickname or the name of his mother's mother) in the city
of Macomer. He also became blind as a three year-old boy because of smallpox;
but a Sardinian literature maven, Canon Spano, says that he had a dark
and expressive face, an exceedingly long head (Sardinians are famous for
their head length) and, after his death, the coroner discovered that he
had an incredibly voluminous brain.
When he was ten, his father was arrested (perhaps he died in prison), and his family fell into poverty. Melchiorre could not learn to read or write, as the Braille code was not invented yet, but he had a very good memory, and by assiduously attending mass, learning the sermons and the readings of the Gospel and Bible, he managed to get a religious and mythological learning, necessary now and then to be a dialectal poet. If you read Grazia Deledda, especially her novel "Canne al Vento - Reeds Bent by the Blowing Wind", you will discover that Sardinian tramps (a blind man could not be anything else then) browsed the Sardinian Saints' feasts in order to beg, but Melchiorre wandered them to improvise poetry, thus earning the nickname of "Homer of the poors". While Homer was an heroic poet, Melchiorre Mereu was a satirical one, and one of his satires likely killed him: in 1854 three men called him with the pretence of leading him to his friend, the poet Maloccu (a poet as good as Melchiorre, nicknamed "the Prince of Fonni"), but when the poet came, they threw him into a gorge, killing him. It is said that the poem you are going to read was the one who annoyed the people who wanted the poet dead; but it is also true that he satirized a lot of important people, especially lewd men or women - and somebody may have ordered his death. But Melchiorre elsewhere protested against the ill fate hitting the poors, and against the abuses entailed by the laws passed by the Piemontese Government in order to abolish the Feudal Regime - Canon Spano thinks that this thread of his perhaps earned him his deadly enemies. |
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