Finding Fudduni:
A DIGITAL ARCHIVE
This digital archive hosts the stories of Petro Fudduni (also known as Pietro Fullone), the most popular Sicilian folk poet of the 17th century. Although some of Fudduni’s tales were transcribed and republished in the 20th century, the majority of his work survives only in the oral folk tradition and particularly in the memory of Sicilian-speaking people and elders. Drawing from ethnographic material and a collection of secondary resources we have created this archive to revive and valorise this endangered cultural heritage.
Truvari a Fudduni:
N'ARCHIVIU DIGGITALI
St'archiviu diggitali òspita li storî di Petru Fudduni (canusciutu macari comu Pietro Fullone), lu cchiù mpurtanti pueta pupulari sicilianu dû XVII sèculu. Puru siddu certi cunti di Fudduni foru trascritti e ripubbricati ntô sèculu XX, la maiuri parti dâ sò òpira supravvivi sulu ntâ tradizzioni pupulari urali e n particulari ntâ mimoria di chiddi ca canusciunu la lingua siciliana e di l'anziani. A partiri dû matiriali ètnograficu e dâ ricota di autri risursi criàmu stu archiviu pi ripristinari e migghiurari stu patrimoniu curturali ‘n perìculu.
SPONSORS
This study is supported by a generous grant (FSRG) from Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington (Project title: (Un)Forgottable Stories: Developing Creative Methodologies to Revive Endangered Cultural Heritage in Sicily). The study has been approved by the Human Ethics Committee at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
Read more about this project here.
