della lingua di Guardia dei Lombardi () and in 1995, he released Viaggio in memoria (), probably his most popular book, which was re-published in 2002. In 1999, he published Milleuno Detti e Proverbi dialettali di Guardia dei Lombardi e dell'Alta Irpinia (). Two years later, he published Sulle orme del passato (), which had two editions. In 2001, he supervised publication of the book Antica funzione storica, sociale e legale dei soprannomi dialettali di Guardia dei Lombardi (), written by UNLA collaborator Stefania Giordano. Final years In 2008, Boniello was elected National Vice President of UNLA. The following year, he worked on the book L'antica via Appia in Alta Irpinia tra la valle dell'Ufita e la misteriosa Valle d'Ansanto (, which was never published. Before his death in autumn of 2010, he was working on two new publications: one concerning emigration, which was a meticulous collection and interpretation of the letters of Irpinia emigrants to the Americas from 1900 to today, and one concerning Carmine Crocco and the phenomenon of Brigandage in Southern Italy. Boniello died on 25 October 2010 in Guardia Lombardi. Legacy On 27 December 2010, just over two months after his death, the Salvatore Boniello Conference took place in Guardia Lombardi. Among others, such speakers as Gerardo Bianco (a fellow Guardiese), Gianfranco Rotondi, and Vitaliano Gemelli (president of UNLA) participated in the conference. There, linguist Edgar Radtke announced in a press release his intention to organize a day of study dedicated to Boniello and to pursue his interrupted research. References 20th-century Italian writers 21st-century Italian writers 20th-century Italian historians 21st-century Italian historians 1928 births 2010 deaths People from Guardia Lombardi Dialectologists