Cefalonia (poem) (original) (raw)

Cefalonia 1943-2001 is a long poem, written as a dialogue in unrhymed verse by Luigi Ballerini between 2001 and 2003, reflecting on the massacre of Italian soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Division Acqui perpetrated by German soldiers of the Wehrmacht, on the Greek island of Cephalonia in the days following the Armistice of Cassibile, stipulated between the Italians and the Anglo-American forces on September 3, 1943, and revealed on September 8, 1943.