Giovanni Meli (Palermo 1740-1815)
Poet Sicilian dialect, said in some respects, the Dante of Sicily. He practiced very young as a doctor in the town of Cinisi. Then she called the University of Palermo taught you, with special expertise, chemistry and botany; of such materials left important scientific writings. Sceverņ in his fecund literary production the soul of the Sicilian people, exposing it with expressive lines, so as to make it appear driving scenes with the eye of the imagination, and giving to them, beyond thought, musicality, feeling and content. He followed the noble traditions of the Venetian and Rau. His principal works are: The Bucolica; The Fairy gallant; Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Sarudda.
