Vincenzo Pellecchia (1875-1939?) was a lawyer (avvocato) from Salerno (van Binnebeke 2020: 283 n. 183; on his dates, see Ijsewijn 1961: 179). He produced several original Latin works between the early 1900s and the early 1930s. Pellecchia also participated in the Certamen Hoeufftianum in 1929 with three works, but none of them was awarded a prize (van Binnebeke 2020: 283 nn. 15, 18, 21).  Pellecchia’s poetry deals with a variety of religious, political, and cultural themes. Some of his texts resonate with ideas about Rome propagated in Italian nationalism and later absorbed within Fascist ideology.

Bibliography

Latin texts

Pellecchia, Vincenzo. 1907. Ode Alcaica in obitu Josue Carducii. Salerno: Tip. Frat. Giovane.

———. 1912. In morte di Giovanni Pascoli. Elegia latina tradotta in versi italiani dallo stresso autore. Salerno: Prem. Stab. Tip. del Commercio.

———. 1921. In sepulcrum Italici Militis ignoti. Salerno: R. Beraglia.

———. 1926. Natalis urbis : anno 8. ab italica victoria ad Plavim, 4. ab cohortum cum fascibus itinere in urbem / Vincentii Pellecchia. Salerno: Typis Vincentii Siano.

———. 1931. Musa Silvestris in Solemnia P. Vergilii Maronis Neapoli Acta. Salerno: R. Beraglia.

Secondary sources

Binnebeke, Xavier van. 2020. ‘Hoeufft’s Legacy: Neo-Latin Poetry in the Archive of the Certamen Poeticum Hoeufftianum (1923–1943)’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 245–325. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

IJsewijn, Jozef. 1961. ‘Conspectus poetarum Latinorum saeculi vicesimi’. Euphrosyne 3: 149–90.

Niccolò Bettegazzi