{"id":88,"date":"2009-02-11T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:29:27","slug":"%e2%80%9cpromemoria%e2%80%9d-by-gianni-rodari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/%e2%80%9cpromemoria%e2%80%9d-by-gianni-rodari\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPromemoria\u201d by Gianni Rodari"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was browsing through my books this morning when I came across a little poem which I had forgotten all about: it\u2019s called Promemoria<\/strong> (Memo) and was written by Gianni Rodari, a famous children\u2019s author who is also\u00a0loved by adults. Rodari was born in 1920 in\u00a0Omegna (Piedmont); when he was young he\u00a0initially worked as a primary school teacher, but in 1948 he became a journalist for the newspaper L\u2019Unita\u2019<\/em> in Milan. It was at this time that he began writing stories for children. In 1950 he was made editor of the children\u2019s weekly magazine Il Pioniere<\/em> in Rome and\u00a0in the same year he published his first book: Il libro delle filastrocche<\/strong> (The book of nursery rhymes). In 1970 Rodari was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize<\/em> for children\u2019s literature, which gained him a wider international reputation, and his books were translated into many languages. In 1973 he wrote La grammatica della fantasia<\/strong> (The grammar of fantasy), an introduction to the art of storytelling. Rodari died in 1980 in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gianni Rodari\u2019s poems and stories are often comic, with elements of fantasy and absurdity, but they still retain a link with the real world.\u00a0 The poem Promemoria<\/em> was published posthumously in Il secondo libro delle filastrocche<\/strong> (The second book of nursery rhymes) in 1985; it\u2019s one of his \u2018serious\u2019 poems.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Promemoria<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ci sono cose da fare ogni giorno:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

lavarsi, studiare, giocare,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

preparare la tavola<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

a mezzogiorno<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ci sono cose da fare di notte:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

chiudere gli occhi, dormire<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

avere sogni da sognare,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

orecchie per non sentire.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ci sono cose da non fare mai,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ne\u2019 di giorno ne\u2019 di notte,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ne\u2019 per mare ne\u2019 per terra:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

per esempio, la guerra.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Memo<\/span><\/p>\n

There are things to be done every day: <\/span><\/p>\n

washing oneself, studying, playing, <\/span><\/p>\n

setting the table <\/span><\/p>\n

at midday. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are things to be done every night: <\/span><\/p>\n

closing one\u2019s eyes, sleeping, <\/span><\/p>\n

having dreams to dream, <\/span><\/p>\n

ears for listening. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are things never to be done, <\/span><\/p>\n

neither by day nor by night, <\/span><\/p>\n

neither by sea nor by land: <\/span><\/p>\n

for example, war.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you would like to read some of Rodari\u2019s works in Italian have a look at this site:\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/www.giannirodari.it\/bambini\/index.html<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was browsing through my books this morning when I came across a little poem which I had forgotten all about: it\u2019s called Promemoria (Memo) and was written by Gianni Rodari, a famous children\u2019s author who is also\u00a0loved by adults. Rodari was born in 1920 in\u00a0Omegna (Piedmont); when he was young he\u00a0initially worked as a…<\/p>\n

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