The Sardinian culture and language lose one of its important exponents: Michele Pinna . The scholar died yesterday at the age of 70,

"It is a serious loss for the family, for all of us at Bellieni, for the city of Sassari and for Sardinia ", said the president of the Institute of Studies and Research "Camillo Bellieni" of Sassari, of which Pinna was one of the founders, Maria Doloretta Lai.

With a Sardinian soul, Michele Pinna was born in 1952 in Bono , the homeland of Giovanni Maria Angioi, something he was proud of. After spending his childhood between Bono and Bultei (country of adoption until the years of his early adolescence), he had completed his studies between Nuoro, Ozieri and Florence. After graduating in Philosophy, he then continued his research activities between Genoa, Paris and Bochum.

In recent years he has worked as a teacher in numerous high schools until retirement , and has published several essays of philosophical, psycho-anthropological and literary interest. He was the founder of the Is.Be Philosophical workshop, designed to combat the confusion of contemporary times, with the desire to bring "attention back to ourselves, to taking care of ourselves, of others and of the world around us" .

Director and founder of the magazine “Sesuja”, he has directed numerous editorial series. The initiatives carried out as scientific director of Is.Be are endless, among which the battles for the introduction of the Sardinian language in the programs of Rai Regione stand out.

One of his last public appearances was last July in Sassari for the presentation of the draft of the Orthographic Standard of the Turritan language, an important milestone that saw Bellieni in the role of coordinator.

It also prolongs his activity as a poet. He leaves a book in the final stage of printing entitled "Poetosophy" where the first, the queen of his works, is not by chance "Dimandas": the question of a poet-philosopher who until the end has never stopped wondering " the why of things ".