Domenico Tempio
Portrait of Domenico Tempio by Giuseppe Gandolfo
Born	(1750-08-22)August 22, 1750 Catania
Died	February 4, 1821(1821-02-04) (aged 70) Catania
Language	Italian/Sicilian
Spouse	Francesca Longo
Children	one daughter

Domenico Tempio (1750–1821) was an Italian writer who mainly wrote in the Sicilian language or dialect. During his lifetime, he was considered a major poet, and was much praised, but after his death his work was largely forgotten, until a reawakening of interest following the second world war.^[1] His poem La Caristia ("The famine"), describing a famine and rioting in Catania in 1797–98, is regarded as his major work.^[2]

Works

• Operi di Duminicu Tempiu catanisi (1814-1815) is a collection of his poetry, edited by Francesco Strano. The best-known poems are L'Odi l'Ignuranza Supra, The Maldicenza sconfitta, Veru Piaciri Lu, The Mbrugghereidi, The Numi Scerra di li, Lu cuntrastu allayed, Paci di Marcuni, Li and Li Pauni Nuzzi.
• La Caristia (1848), is his most important work, published posthumously by Vincenzo Percolla. It is a poem in twenty cantos.
• Tempio di Domenico Poesie (1874) is the second edition of his works, with many additions.
• Erotic poetry was collected in 1926 by Raffaele Corso Di Vincenzo and by Maria and Santo Cali in 1970.