Editing Sardinia (section)

=== Literature ===
{{Main|Sardinian literature|Sardinian Literary Spring}}
[[File:Portrait of Grazia Deledda by Plinio Nomellini, 1914.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Grazia Deledda by [[Plinio Nomellini]], 1914]]
The first literary work in Sardinian language dates back to the second half of the 15th century: a poem inspired by the life of the holy Porto Torres martyrs by the archbishop of Sassari Antonio Cano. Literary production had a remarkable development in the 16th century, the protagonist was [[Antonio Lo Frasso]], his ''Los diez libros de Fortuna de Amor'' is mentioned in the [[Don Quixote]] by [[Miguel de Cervantes]]. This work is written mainly in Spanish, but there are parts written in Catalan and in the Sardinian language.<ref name="Letteratura" /> [[Multilingualism]] was a characteristic trait of the islanders of that time, among them Sigismondo Arquer, [[Giovanni Francesco Fara]] and [[Pietro Delitala]] stood out. Delitala wrote in Italian, then Tuscan, and [[Gerolamo Araolla]] in all the three languages (Sardinian, Spanish and Italian).<ref name="Letteratura">{{cite web |url=http://www.sardegnacultura.it/argomenti/letteratura/ |title=Letteratura |website=sardegnacultura.it|access-date=8 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081310/http://www.sardegnacultura.it/argomenti/letteratura/|archive-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> But already in the 17th century there was a total integration in the Iberian world as demonstrated by the works in Spanish of the poets José Delitala y Castelvì, [[Joseph Zatrillas Vico]] and the writers Francesco Angelo de Vico and Salvatore Vidal.

From 1720, with the passage of the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]], to the [[House of Savoy]], Italian became the official language. In the 19th century there is an interest of Sardinian authors for the history and culture of Sardinia: [[Giovanni Spano]] undertakes the first archaeological excavations, [[Giuseppe Manno]] writes the first great general history of the island, [[Pasquale Tola]] publishes important documents of the past and writes biographies of illustrious Sardinians. [[Alberto La Marmora]] travels the island far and wide, studying in detail and writing a four-part work entitled ''Voyage en Sardaigne''.

The Sardinian society of the Early 20th century is told by [[Grazia Deledda]], the only italian woman to win a [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] to date, Enrico Costa, and the poet [[Sebastiano Satta]]. In this century, we must remember also the literary production of political characters of great value such as [[Antonio Gramsci]] and [[Emilio Lussu]]. After the Second World War, [[Giuseppe Dessì]] emerged, known mainly for his novel ''Paese d'ombre''. In more recent years, the autobiographical novels of [[Gavino Ledda]] ''Padre Padrone'' and [[Salvatore Satta]] ''Il Giorno del Giudici'' had a wide echo, in addition to the works of [[Sergio Atzeni]] and other writers active in the recent decades.<ref name="Letteratura" />