Cefalonia (poem)

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Cefalonia 1943-2001

Author	Luigi Ballerini
Language	Italian
Genre	Poetry
Publication date	2005

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.

The poem was first published by Mondadori.^[1] in 2005. On the occasion of the tragedy's 70th anniversary, a second edition was published in 2013 by Marsilio Editori.