Angelo Lo Jacono

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Angelo Lo Jacono (Paternò, 1838- Paterno, 29 December 1898) was an Italian writer and journalist.

Biography[edit]

He studied at the Seminary of Catania, but he devoted himself later to literature.

Back in his birth town, he worked as a lawyer and published essays, tales and poems. He translated Virgil's Georgics into Italian language and worked for the farming publication L'agricoltore calabro-siculo.[1]

Publications[edit]

  • Miscellanea Letteraria - Catania, Tipografia dell' Ateneo Siculo (1862)
  • Le Georgiche di Virgilio tradotte in versi italiani - Catania (1863)
  • Emmanuelide - Catania, Pastore (1879)

Merits[edit]

Order of the Crown of Italy

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ AA.VV., L'agricoltore calabro-siculo vol. 23, Tipografia Rizzo, 1898, p. 23

Bibliography[edit]

  • S. Correnti - Paternò - Palermo, Nuova Trinacria, 1973.
  • G. Savasta - Memorie storiche della città di Paternò - Catania, Galati, 1905.