Pasqual Scanu (

Alghero Alghero (; ; ; ) is a city of about 45,000 inhabitants in the Italian province of Sassari in the north west of the island of Sardinia, next to the Mediterranean Sea. The city's name comes from ''Aleguerium'', which is a mediaeval Latin word m ...

1908 -

Sassari Sassari ( ; ; ; ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 120,497 inhabitants as of 2025, and a functional urban area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, it contains ...

1978) was an Italian

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and writer in Catalan and

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. He studied in

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and was a school teacher and later a school director in the

province of Sassari The province of Sassari (; ; ; ; ) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital was the city of Sassari. On 1 April 2025, the province was suppressed in favor of the new Metropolitan City of Sassari, which corres ...

(1937–1975). He was very interested in Catalan culture in Alghero and took part in almost all Catalan

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since 1959.

Works

* ''Alghero e la Catalogna'' (1962) * ''Pervivència de la llengua catalana oficial a l'Alguer'' (1964) * ''Sardegna'' (1964) * ''Sardegna nostra'' (1970) * ''Poesia d'Alguer'' (1970) * ''Guida di Alghero'' (1971) * ''Rondalles alguereses'' (1985) 1908 births 1978 deaths People from Alghero Italian male poets Italian educators Catalan-language writers 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-poet-stub