Salvatore Deḍla
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Salvatore Dedola was born in Sassari (north-west Sardinia) and lived there until the age of twenty-four, meeting people speaking a variety of dialects: Sassarians first of all, Logudorians and Gallurians. Since then he has lived in Cagliari and in the villages nearby, in the company of Campidanians. He has worked for many years in the Sardinian Agricultural Development Corporation, meeting farmers and shepherds, and finally publishing the book Agriturismo in Sardegna ‘Holiday farms in Sardinia’, where he shows the best of the farms, their environment, history and traditions.
For thirty-three years he has been a member of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) and a “national escursion guide”. He has been president of the CAI-Cagliari and regional president of Sardinian CAI three times. He has organized a great number of escursions in the mountains, going around the entire island and covering more than forty-three thousand kilometers on foot. Because of his deep knowledge of the island, he has published eight books of which the most important are: Agriturismo in Sardegna (already mentioned); Un viaggio nel silenzio ‘A journey in the silence’ where he presents twenty-three footpaths in central Sardinia; Sentiero Sardegna Sentiero Italia Sentiero Europa where he writes about crossing Sardinia, from north to south along the “Sentiero Italia”; Toponomastica Sarda where he presents 1900 etymologies of Sardinian place names; I Pani della Sardegna where he presents 270 Sardinian breads with their etymologies. A new imminent issue is the book Flora Sardoa where he presents about 800 Sardinian plants with their etymologies. |