Salvatore Di Giacomo was born at Naples, 12 March 1860. Early in his career, on the basis of his dialect poems and dramas, he was acclaimed the consummate interpreter of Neapolitan life. He collaborated with the most talented composers of the Piedigotta festivals who set many of his poems as lyrics to Neapolitan canzoni. He was nominated a senator of Italy. He dies in Naples on 5 March 1934. Today Salatore Di Giacomo is an acknowledged Italian classic among the great writers of Italy.