GREGGE ROMANE. POEMA
Book presentation
Palazzo Valentini
Rome
Italy
June 11th, 2026
This is an initiative of Bambun as part of the “Creative Europe Tramontana IV” project.
The book “Gregge romane. Poema”, edited by Elio Di Michele, Giampiero Giamogante and Roberta Tucci, with a preface by Gianfranco Spitilli and an afterword by Giovanni Kezich, published by Bambun/Centro Studi Don Nicola Jobbi in December 2025, was presented at Palazzo Valentini, in Rome, in collaboration with the Abruzzese Association of Rome. The presentation was coordinated by Nando Giammarini, with remarks by Dario Nanni, Ercole Di Girolamo, Gianni Lattanzio, Katia Ranieri and the editors Elio Di Michele and Giampiero Giamogante, and with the participation of the anthropologist Giovanni Kezich, author of the book’s afterword.
“Gregge romane” was completed in 1942 by Agostino Annibaldi, a shepherd from Poggio Cancelli (L’Aquila) who moved his flocks to the Roman countryside. Written in hendecasyllables, with more than two thousand five hundred verses divided into twelve chapters, the poem follows the transhumant shepherd through the whole year, from the ascent to the mountain pastures to the return to the Roman countryside. Almost entirely unpublished until now, it is offered to readers as a “classic” of Apennine pastoral civilisation.
