«GREGGE ROMANE. POEMA» – BOOK PRESENTATION
FLA – Festival di libri e altre cose
Video Room, Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo
Pescara, Italy
Friday 6 November 2026, 16:00
This is an initiative of Bambun APS as part of the “Creative Europe Tramontana IV” project.
The book «Gregge romane. Poema» by Agostino Annibaldi, edited by Elio Di Michele, Giampiero Giamogante and Roberta Tucci, with a foreword by Gianfranco Spitilli and an afterword by Giovanni Kezich, published by Bambun / Centro Studi Don Nicola Jobbi in December 2025, is presented in the Video Room of the Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo in Pescara, as part of the FLA – Festival di libri e altre cose. The speakers are Gianfranco Spitilli, Roberta Tucci and Giovanni Kezich.
“In 1942 – writes Roberta Tucci –, Agostino Annibaldi, a shepherd from Poggio Cancelli (AQ) who moved his flocks to the Roman countryside, completed his remarkable poem in hendecasyllables, «Gregge romane»: a unique work, comprising over two thousand five hundred verses divided into twelve chapters, in which the author distills all his knowledge and experience as a sheep farmer rooted in a family and regional context deeply tied to sheep herding.” The poem follows the transhumant shepherd through the whole year: the ascent to the mountain pastures, summer and winter grazing, the descent to the Roman countryside, lambing, shearing, cheese and ricotta making, music, dance and religious practice. Cut short by the author’s death in 1944 during the war, the poem, hitherto almost entirely unpublished, is now offered to readers as a “classic” of Apennine pastoral civilisation.
Free admission while seats last.
More information: https://pescarafestival.it/evento/elio-di-michele-giampiero-giamogante-roberta-tucci-al-fla2026/