“Gregge romane” presented at the Rondilà centre in Arsita

GREGGE ROMANE. POEMA
Book presentation

Rondilà – Centro per l’Eredità Culturale dell’Alta Val Fino
Arsita (Teramo)
Italy
August 9th, 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 the Centro Rondilà, in Arsita, with contributions from Marco Magistrali, Gianfranco Spitilli, the book’s editor Giampiero Giamogante and improvisational poets, before an audience of 28 people.

“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 Almost entirely unpublished until now, it is offered to readers as a “classic” of Apennine pastoral civilisation.