Pasqual Scanu (

Alghero Alghero (; ca, label=Alguerese, L'Alguer ; sc, S'Alighèra ; sdc, L'Aliera ) is a city of about 45,000 inhabitants in the Italian insular province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, next to the Mediterranean Sea. The city's name comes from ...

1908 -

Sassari Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...

1978) was an Italian

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and writer in

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and Italian. 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 ( it, provincia di Sassari, sc, provìntzia de Tàtari, sdc, prubìnzia di Sàssari, ca, província de Sàsser, french: province de Sassari, co, pruvincia di Sassari) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the autonomous ...

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