Biographical notes
*''Poetry'' Author of long epic poems about natural landscapes, Benozzo usually composes them orally and then performs them with his harp (the last two published are ''Felci in rivolta / Ferns in revolt'' 015 and ''La capanna del naufrago / The Castaway's Shack'' 017 Since 2015 he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry in defence of natural places and for his use of techniques belonging to the ancient tradition of oral poetry. In 2016, on the official webpage of the Swedish Academy, he was consecrated by the international readers' jury as the most worthy author for the prize itself. *''Philology and Linguistics'' In his revolutionary book ''Speaking Australopithecus'' (written together with the archaeologist Marcel Otte) he argues for a much greater antiquity of human language than has usually been presumed in recent research (according to which it was born withDiscography
*''In'tla piola'' (Sain records, Wales/UK, 2000) *''Carte di mare'' (MusicOn, ITA, 2001) (with Matteo Meschiari) *''Il libro di Taliesin'' (Frame Events, ITA, 2004) *''Arpa celtica'' (Concerto Live, Centro Campostrini, ITA, 2005) *''Terracqueo'' (Tutl Records, DK, 2009) *''Libertà l'è morta'' (Tutl Records, DK, 2013) (with Fabio Bonvicini) *''Ponte del diavolo'' (RadiciMusic, ITA, 2014) (with Fabio Bonvicini) *''L'inverno necessario / The Necessary Winter'' (Tutl Records, DK, 2016) *''Un Requiem Laico'' (ARCI RE, ITA, 2016) (with Fabio Bonvicini & Fratelli Mancuso) *''Ytiddo. BPB- Benozzo Performs Bowie'' (Universalia, ITA, 2017)Main Poetry Books
*''Onirico geologico'', Ferrara, Edizioni Kolibris, 2014 *''Felci in rivolta / Ferns in Revolt'', with a translation by G. Sutherland, Ferrara, Kolibris, 2016 *''La capanna del naufrago / The Castaway's Shack'', Ferrara, Kolibris, 2017Main Philological books
*''Landscape perception in early celtic literature'', Aberystwyth, Celtic studies, 2004 *''La tradizione smarrita: le origini non scritte delle letterature romanze'', Roma, Viella, 2007 *''Cartografie occitaniche: approssimazione alla poesia dei trovatori'', Napoli, Liguori, 2008 *''Etnofilologia: un'introduzione'', Napoli, Liguori, 2010 *''Breviario di etnofilologia'', Lecce-Rovato, Pensa Multimedia, 2012 *''Anarchia e quarto umanesimo: un'intervista su irriverenza, scienza e dissidenza'', Bologna, Clueb, 2012 *''Appello all'UNESCO per liberare Dante dai dantisti'', Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2013 *''DESLI: dizionario etimologico-semantico della lingua italiana'' (con Mario Alinei), Bologna, Pendragon, 2015 *''The Shamanic Origins of European Culture'', Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2015 *''Carducci'', Milano, Rizzoli-Corriere della sera, 2016 *''Il giro del mondo in ottanta saggi'', Roma, Aracne, 2016 *''Speaking Australopithecus. A New Theory on the Origins of Human Language'' (with Marcel Otte), Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2017 *''DESCI. Dizionario etimologico semantico dei cognomi italiani'' (with Mario Alinei), Savona, PM edizioni *''Falsi germanismi nelle lingue romanze'', Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018 *''Perspectives in Semantics'', Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018 *''Liguri, Etruschi e Celti'', Modena, Deputazione di Storia Patria, 2017References
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