Francesco Benozzo

[1] He is known for being an active dissident against the mass surveillance, with concrete protest actions that even led to his suspension from work for his rebellion against the power and in the name of freedom.

[9] In Benozzo's conception, poetry is essentially an instrument of dissidence capable of debunking habitual perceptions of the world and restoring individual freedom to each human being.

[10] He is the author of long epic poems about natural landscapes and the origin of universe,[11] which have been collected in 2023 in a bilingual edition (Italian and English) titled Sciamanica.

Poem after poem, unfailingly and amazingly this poet enacts a revolution of the very idea of poetry: with his atemporal and universal dimension, he is the Homer of post-modernity”[22] In his 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 with Homo sapiens at the end of Middle Paleolithic – 50.000 years ago – or at the most with some Neandertal, 200.000 years ago), providing linguistic and archaeological evidence for seeing the appearance of human language with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.

He gave concerts in theatres and musical festival outside Europe, mainly in the USA (Los Angeles, Boston, New York), in Canada (Calgary, Montréal, Québec), and in Cuba.