Ofelia Giudicissi Curci


Ofelia Giudicissi Curci was an Italian poet, and archeologist.

Life

Ofelia was born in the Arbëreshë populated Pallagorio, a settlement near Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy on 11 May 1934.
She published her first poetry in a volume called Pallagorio in 1964. Fifteen years after she died, her husband and sons published a collection of her poetry together with a photo album. In October 1996, Momenti di un profilo meridionale was published post-mortum in Florence by publishing house "Parretti Grafiche".
She worked also in the field of archaeology, mostly on the terrain of her native area, and performed a research on the etymology of her town Pallagorio.