@prefix rdf: . @prefix dbpedia: . @prefix ns2: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu rdf:type ns2:ItalianPoets . @prefix owl: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu owl:sameAs . @prefix foaf: . @prefix ns5: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu foaf:page ns5:Melchiorre_Murenu . @prefix rdfs: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu rdfs:label "Melchiorre Murenu"@it , "Melchiorre Murenu"@en , "Melchiorre Murenu"@ca . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu dbpprop:abstract "Melchiorre Murenu was a blind Sardinian poet and writer. Melchiorre Murenu is known as the \"Homer or the Marghine\", because (just like the great Greek poet) he was blind and lived his entire life for poetry. He was born in Macomer where he lived his entire life. At the age of three he became blind because of smallpox. Murenu's father was imprisoned when Melchiorre was ten years old, and is thought to have died during his imprisonment. This unfortunate circumstance drove Murenu's family in poverty (Murenu spoke of the difficult times of his childhood in the poem \"Supplica a Monsignore Bua\"). In these difficult circumstances Murenu could not afford to be formally educated, and he enjoyed spending time at the local church. There he acquainted himself to the biblical texts and, thanks to a prodigious memory, he could recite entire passages of the scriptures, as well as the daily sermons, entirely by heart. Despite this background (or, perhaps, because of it), poverty and oppression are the main subjects of Murenu's poetry. Among his most famous lyrics are \"Supplica a Monsignore Bua\" (\"Supplique to Mgr. Rua\", about his family's misfortunes), \"S'istadu de Sardigna\" (\"State of Sardinia\", about the pervasive injustice against the defenseless people of Sardinia), and \"Tancas serradas a muru\" (\"walled lands\"), a quartile about the appropriation of lands. Another famous composition by Murenu sealed his fate; it is \"Sas isporchizias de Bosa\" (\"Bosa's filth\"), a fictional (and decidedly unflattering) description of the city of Bosa. It is commonly thought that because of this poem, some of Bosa's inhabitants decided to avenge such offense by killing him. The night of October 21, 1854, three men, claiming to be there on behalf of a poet known to Murenu, lured him out of his place and pushed him over a cliff."@en , "Melchiorre Murenu Fou un escriptor sard. Pertanyia a una fam\u00EDlia de petits propietaris que fou redu\u00EFda a la mis\u00E8ria despr\u00E9s de l'empresonament del seu pare, que potser va morir a la pres\u00F3. Aix\u00F2 el va fer pobre i analfabet, per\u00F2 era dotat d'una mem\u00F2ria prodigiosa i adopt\u00E0 la cultura popular amb els discursos dels predicadors. Esdevingu\u00E9 for\u00E7a popular a Sardenya com a improvisador moralistra i ir\u00F2nic. Hom creu que va morir assassinat per alg\u00FA a causa de la burla que va fer d'ell en alguns versos."@ca ; rdfs:comment "Melchiorre Murenu was a blind Sardinian poet and writer. Melchiorre Murenu is known as the \"Homer or the Marghine\", because (just like the great Greek poet) he was blind and lived his entire life for poetry. He was born in Macomer where he lived his entire life. At the age of three he became blind because of smallpox. Murenu's father was imprisoned when Melchiorre was ten years old, and is thought to have died during his imprisonment."@en , "Melchiorre Murenu Fou un escriptor sard. Pertanyia a una fam\u00EDlia de petits propietaris que fou redu\u00EFda a la mis\u00E8ria despr\u00E9s de l'empresonament del seu pare, que potser va morir a la pres\u00F3. Aix\u00F2 el va fer pobre i analfabet, per\u00F2 era dotat d'una mem\u00F2ria prodigiosa i adopt\u00E0 la cultura popular amb els discursos dels predicadors. Esdevingu\u00E9 for\u00E7a popular a Sardenya com a improvisador moralistra i ir\u00F2nic."@ca . @prefix skos: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu skos:subject , . @prefix ns9: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu skos:subject ns9:Italian_poets , ns9:Blind_people . @prefix ns10: . dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection ns10:Melchiorre_Murenu . @prefix yago: . yago:Melchiorre_Murenu owl:sameAs dbpedia:Melchiorre_Murenu .