Raffaele Angelini was born in Civitavecchia in 1966 and lives in Tolfa (RM), where he practices as a professional surveyor, specializing in topography.
He has known and appreciated the poetic art since he was a child because his father Vincenzo, a great lover of "a cuff" poetry (i.e. improvised and sung in eighth rhyme) took him with him to attend the frequent competitions or non-competitive evenings of this very particular poetic discipline , widespread in the regions of central Italy and widely followed in Tolfa. He started writing poetry about 7 years ago.
Raffaele composes in "tied octaves", in which the first hendecasyllable verse of the verse must resume the rhyme of the closing couplet of the previous octave; he takes as a model the way of composing the octave of extemporaneous poets.
His sources of inspiration are the observation of the beauties of nature and the world, reflection on the values ​​of humanity, family affections. He often composes on "contrasting" topics, having as an example and reference the "duets" of off-the-cuff poetry, in which two (or more) poets interpret opposing roles and/or figures, giving rise to very lively and engaging poetic competitions, highly appreciated by the public, who participate emotionally by dividing themselves into "opposing factions".