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NINO MARTOGLIO WRITER AND POET OF CATANIA SICILY

Nino Martoglio Sicilian Catania was an Italian Director, screenwriter, writer and poet, was born in Belpasso (Catania) on 3 December 1870 and died in Catania on September 15, 1921.

Nino Martoglio, just 19 years old he made his debut in journalism by publishing weekly in Catania humorous political-literary-published by 1889 to 1904 D'artagnan, entirely designed and written by him, with the purpose to discuss art, literature, theater, politics, etc..

The initiative was extremely successful, partly because he presented his evidence you genuinely poetic Madrigal dialect and infused with a comedy.
These verses the deserved praise of Carducci and popularity in the city. In 1901 he decided to turn to the theatre, in an effort to bring to audiences of all Italy the teatro dialettale siciliano, which the actor Giuseppe Rizzotto had disclosed years earlier. Having discovered some actors Islanders with a disruptive vis comica, in April 1903 he debuted with the company by these trained and directed by him, at the Teatro Manzoni in Milano.

Il his language is simple and smooth, and despite swimming in folk songs, has something like language, literary end, digiacomiano which is the actual model that relates; and even when the Madrigal describes, the description is never an end in itself, the author's feelings always vibrates. And thanks to the exceptional ability of interpreters (Giovanni Grasso, Marinella Bragaglia, Angelo Musco), Mads soon reached an extraordinary reputation.

The first phonographic volume to see there was light "or scuru o' scuru" (1895); in all fourteen sonnets that were dialogued, genre started five years earlier by Nino Page with "Siciliana", but that the Madrigal will lead to true art form. Even before it appeared in volume of sonnets "' O scuru ' or scuru, D'artagnan had appeared many sonnets collected then as Lu fonografu; This is perhaps the best work of the most famous and most certainly Martoglio,.

The journalist, humorist and playwright blend into the poet, refine the sensitivity, dampen that certain tone melodramatic spoken of Luigi Capuana; His early texts, the civitoti in court and Nica, constituted the beginning of an intense activity that drove his point home in the composition of some twenty plays, some of them in Italian. In 1903 organized and directed the dramatic Sicilian Company.
Thus began to flourish that Sicilian dialect that grease, incupendo the colors, it would be tragic and Musco expression, with diversions of his jokes, comic and mocking expression up to Delirium, clownish. As an author, Madrigal pose staged a colourful and credible Sicily, finding her characters among the people and, although not vigorous character creator, showed however skilled inventor of glowing dip during events and dialogues. Nino Martoglio became a victorious. Overcame all obstacles, all the suspicions, all jealousy.
The Sicilian Theater indeed, lives: a very wide repertoire and an all too now has a numerous group of actors. And as long as he will live, live to the delight of the audience in the world, the s. Giovanni Decollato Austinu Mastru Misciasciu (1908), caricature of a popular religion trustful, Don Cola Duscio of l'aria del Continente (1910), a satirical representation of snobbery square Islander slicing contempt for customs and habits Sicily, and the various characters of Scuru, his Excellency the Marquis of Ruvolito, Taddarita, Nica and Captain Sèniu.

His name is linked mainly to two operas written for Musco: San Cha decullatu (1908), caricature of a naïve, popular religiosity and the masters of the Madrigal, also for the sonnet dialogue, are to be found in Naples, where they worked on By James and the Russian, from which it draws inspiration and social contrasts that revives in scenes from his Catania, especially "' O fùnneco" (1886) of Di Giacomo is her role model.
Even the great Luigi Pirandello suffered the charm of activism by Mads and yielding to his entreaties wrote in 1916 directly in dialect Giacuminu, think about it! and the same year were two works Liolà, staged by Angelo Musco. At the same time the large agrigentino wrote two comedies in dialect, always for the company of Musco: ' A ciancianeddi ' cu latter wrote (The CAP and bells) is A bristle (the jar). It must also be said that Pirandello wrote in collaboration with Mads ' A van Hoek (1917) and Cappiddazzu pays all (1917) staged only in 1958.

A fertile plot in an unrepeatable moment crossed from Sicily in the years between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Less known but effective and memorable, was also her film work. In the period from 1913 to 1915 Mads turned to directing, he directed four films, including Thérèse Raquin and Sperduti nel buio (considered the best product of the fledgling Italian cinema), silent films cited in the Italian film history for their originality and expressive intensity, connected to naturalism dialect of which the author had given away evidence in the theater. In full swing of his business caught him death: for one unfortunate accident, opening a door accidentally looking into a funnel cloud lift in Hospital Vittorio Emanuele of Catania to visit the sick child; is such thing and such cruelty, which really does despair and innorridire.