Nuorese Cultural DistrictSalvatore Francesco Sini (b. Sarule, 2 May 1873–d. Nuoro, 27 August 1954) was an Italian writer and lawyer.
Salvatore Sini
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The son of shepherds and devoted as a boy to caring for the flocks, he took his degree in law in 1904.
In 1909, he published the play Il medico and in 1911, the year of the Libyan war, the song La guerra Tripolina.
During the Great War, he expressed his proletarian revolutionary beliefs in the works Lamentos de sas teracas de Nuogoro and Comunismo.
With Comunismo, he began his collaboration with Giuseppe Rachel, who had come to Nuoro to conduct the city band.
In 1921, Rachel wrote music for Sini’s poem A diosa, better known as No potho reposare.
A diosa, considered by many the best-loved and sweetest of Sardinia’s love songs, brought Sini fame across the island.
It is a heart-rending declaration of love that is followed by a less-known reply from the beloved titled A diosu.
There is a mural dedicated to Sini in his hometown, Sarule.