Italo-Hispanic Literary Relations (PDF)

Three Hispanic-Sardinian writers: Delitala, Suñer and Zatrillas (p. 3)

Mario Aste

The literature of Sardinia should occupy a relevant place in any discussion about Italo-Hispanic relations, given the historical developments regarding the island from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Sardinia`s relationship with the Hispanic world began on the 4th of April 1297 when Boniface VIII gave "Regnum Sardiniae" to James II of Aragón by taking the island away from Genoa and Pisa and the independent Sardinian "Guidicato" of Arbórea.

At the beginning of the XVIII century with the Treaty of London, Sardinia was given to Austria, two years later the island passed to the House of Savoy and through its association with Piedmont began to gravitate again in the world of Italian culture. The fact that for more than four centuries the "regnum Sardiniae" was part of the Hispanic world is of primary importance in the study of Italo-Hispanic relations.

With the XIII century Sardinia began to use Italian again as the official language of government and Communications as it had done in part for several decades during Genoa and Pisa economical and political domination from the XI to the XIII century.

From the XIV to the XVIII century the intellectual ufe of the island started to breath and express itself in Catalán first and later Castillian, due to the effects of the unified Spanish crown. Of the previous Italian influence few things remain, among these there is one Laudarlo, found in 1935 by Damiano Filia at Borutta, a town near the northern city of Sassari.

The gravitational pulí toward the Hispanic scene carne at the expense of any influence that the Italian world of art and letters would have made. Throughout these centuries of political, economic and cultural domination from outside one aspect of Sardinian culture was never conquered: folklore and language.

In fací even in the periods of highest form of cultural domination Sardinian as a

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