Antonio De Santis, Totò (; 17 October 1931 - 4 April 2014) was an Italian

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, famous for his sonnets in '' Larinese'', the dialect of Larino.

Biography

Born in Larino,

province of Campobasso The province of Campobasso (; ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Molise region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Campobasso. It covers an area of and has a total population of 223,871 (2017). There are 84 ''comuni'' (: ''comune'') in ...

, son of Corrado De Santis, owner of cinema of Larino during the years of

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In the early 1950s he moved to

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, in

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Published works

*''I Viecch-j ditt'' (2004), The collection of stories of Larino in the

Molise Molise ( , ; ; , ) is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. Until 1963, it formed part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise together with Abruzzo. The split, which did not become effective until 1970, makes Molise the newest region in Ital ...

. *''I Viecch-j ditt 2'' (2006) *''I Viecch-j ditt 3'' (2008)

References

External links

Larino: The Miracle of the Molise
1931 births 2014 deaths People from the Province of Campobasso 20th-century Italian poets {{Italy-poet-stub