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Helle Busacca
alt=The poet circa 1950 Helle Busacca (; San Piero Patti, 21 December 1915 – Florence, 15 January 1996) was an Italian poet, painter, and writer. Life Born in a well-to-do family in San Piero Patti, Province of Messina, Sicily, Helle Busacca lived for part of her youth in her birthplace. Then she moved to Bergamo and later to Milan together with her parents. She graduated with a degree in classical letters at the Royal University of Milan. In the following years, she taught letters in various high schools, moving from city to city: Varese, Pavia, Milan, Naples, Siena, and finally Florence, where she died on 15 January 1996. Her papers, which include correspondence, sketches, and rough drafts of published works, as well as many unpublished manuscripts, are kept in a special collection at the State Archives of Florence. In December 2015, at a conference on the centenary of her birth, the Municipal Library of San Piero Patti was named for her. Poetry Busacca's papers, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Busacca
alt=The poet circa 1950 Helle Busacca (; San Piero Patti, 21 December 1915 – Florence, 15 January 1996) was an Italian poet, painter, and writer. Life Born in a well-to-do family in San Piero Patti, Province of Messina, Sicily, Helle Busacca lived for part of her youth in her birthplace. Then she moved to Bergamo and later to Milan together with her parents. She graduated with a degree in classical letters at the Royal University of Milan. In the following years, she taught letters in various high schools, moving from city to city: Varese, Pavia, Milan, Naples, Siena, and finally Florence, where she died on 15 January 1996. Her papers, which include correspondence, sketches, and rough drafts of published works, as well as many unpublished manuscripts, are kept in a special collection at the State Archives of Florence. In December 2015, at a conference on the centenary of her birth, the Municipal Library of San Piero Patti was named for her. Poetry Busacca's papers, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include ''Ripostes'' (1912), ''Hugh Selwyn Mauberley'' (1920), and his 800-page Epic poetry, epic poem, ''The Cantos'' (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's ''Ulysses (novel), Ulysses''. Hemingway wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Rerum Natura
''De rerum natura'' (; ''On the Nature of Things'') is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. Greenblatt (2011). Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by ''fortuna'' ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities. Background To the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the deit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idolina Landolfi
Maria Idolina Landolfi (born 19 May 1958 in Rome – died 27 June 2008 in Florence) was an Italian novelist, poet and literary critic. She was daughter of the writer Tommaso Landolfi and the principal curator of his works. In 1996 she founded the ''Landolfian Studies Center'', of which she was the president until her death. He collaborated on the cultural pages of the newspaper Il Giornale until May 2008. Her personal library was donated to the Humanist Library of Siena. Prose and poetry *''Scemo d'amore : racconti'', Roma, Empiria, 1998. *''I litosauri'', Roma, Laterza, 1999. *''Senza titolo'' testo di Idolina Landolfi, xilografia di Antonio Baglivo, Salerno, SemInAria, 2001 *con Ester Pes, ''Attacchi d'amore'', Milano, ES, 1996. *''Sotto altra stella'', Pasian di Prato, Campanotto Editore, 1996 *''Matracci e storte: novelle e novellette mercuriali'', Napoli, Graus, 2004. *''Non mi destare, amore'', Firenze, Il Bisonte, 2010 Translations * Gina Barkhordar Nahai, ''L' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908–1981) was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 1970s. Sinisgalli was born in Montemurro, Basilicata. His early education and careers led to him being called the "engineer poet". In 1925, Sinisgalli moved to Rome where he studied engineering and mathematics. After completing his engineering degree in 1932, he moved to Milan where he worked as an architect and graphic artist. He was a close friend of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and painter Scipione. He worked at Milan for architecture and graphic design projects. Sinisgalli's early collections such as ''Cuore'' (1927), ''18 poesie'' (1936), ''Campi Elisi'' (1939) focused on themes from ancestral southern Italian myths. Later he explored a more relaxed style in ''I nuovi Campi Elisi'' (1947), ''La vigna vecchia'' (1952), ''L'età della luna'' (1962), ''Il passero e il lebbroso'' (1970), ''Mosche in bottiglia'' (1975) and ''Dimenticatoio'' (1978). He authored prose that analyze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Sereni
Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence. Born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936. In 1938, he co-founded the literary review ''Corrente di Vita''. In 1941, he published ''Frontiera'', his first collection of poetry. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World War II: captured by Allied forces in 1943, he spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Algeria and Morocco. These experiences formed the basis for his second poetry book, ''Diario d'Algeria''. After the war, Sereni worked as a teacher and literary critic. From the mid-1950s until his retirement in 1976, he was literary director of the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house. His later collections of poetry included ''Gli strumenti umani'' (1965) and ''Stella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Solmi
Sergio Solmi (16 December 1899 – 7 October 1981) was an Italian poet, essayist and literary critic. Born in Rieti, Solmi's studies mainly focused on French literature and on Italian contemporary literature. He released several collections of poetries, with a style influenced by hermeticism.Solmi, Sergio . '' - III Appendice''. , 1961. During his career Solmi was recipient of several literary awards, including the |
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet. Biography Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Castello, where he started his primary school. In Florence he studied at the ''liceo classico'' Galileo, and also in Florence he obtained his degree in French literature with a final dissertation about François Mauriac. This was an important period for Luzi. He met poets such as Piero Bigongiari, Alessandro Parronchi, Carlo Bo, Leone Traverso, and the critic Oreste Macrì. His first book, ''La barca'', was published in 1935 and in 1938 he started to teach in high schools in the cities of Parma, San Miniato and Rome. In 1940, he published ''Avvento notturno''; in 1945 he went back to Florence and there he taught at the ''liceo scientifico''. In 1946 he published ''Un brindisi e Quaderno gotico'', in issue 1 of ''Inventario'', in 1952 '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Anceschi
Luciano Anceschi (; February 20, 1911 in Milan – May 2, 1995 in Bologna) was an Italian literary critic and essayist. A pupil of Antonio Banfi, with whom he graduated in philosophy in 1933, he taught aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Bologna from 1952 to 1981. His interest in literature and the arts was always accompanied by that for the modern anti-dogmatic philosophy: after the publication of his graduation thesis "Autonomy and Heteronomy of art" published by Sansoni in 1936, his research on anti-idealistic literary figures and models found voice in comments published in ''Orpheus'' from 1932 and in ''Corrente di vita giovanile'' in 1938-1939, self promoted magazines. Sensitive to new cultural trends, he was in favor of Hermeticism and Neo avant garde, working at the same time as theorist and militant reviewer: he published the ''Saggi di poetica e poesia. Con una scheda sulla Swedenborg'' (1942) and edited the anthologies of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Bo
Carlo Bo (25 January 1911 – 21 July 2001) was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinghuished humanist, a professor and Life senator of Italy (from 1984). Biography Bo was born on January 25, 1911, in Sestri Levante, Italy. From 1929 to 1934 he attended the humanities school at the University of Florence, moving from the study of classical literature to modern literature, discipline in which het took his Laurea in 1934. Bo wrote his first book in 1935, a monograph on Jacques Riviere. Before the Second World War, in the year 1936, he published an essay on the literary magazine '' Il Frontespizio'' which gathered together the most relevant poets like Mario Luzi, and contemporary artists from Ottone Rosai to Giorgio Morandi and Quinto Martini. His essay was titled "Letteratura come vita (Literature as a way of life)", containing the theoretical-methodological fundamentals of hermetic poetry. In 1939 he began teaching French literature at the University of Urbino. Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and works Early years Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo Svevo's firm). The poet's niece, Bianca Montale, in her ''Cronaca famigliare'' ("Family Chronicle") of 1986 portrays the family's common characteristics as "nervous fragility, shyness, concision in speaking, a tendency to see the worst in every event, a certain sense of humour". Montale was the youngest of six sons. He recalled: We were a large family. My brothers went to the ''scagno'' office" in Genoese My only sister had a university education, but I had no such opportunity. In many families the unspoken arrangement existed that the youngest was released from the task of keeping up the family name. In 1915 Montale worked as an accountant, but was left free to follow his literary pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Betocchi
Carlo Betocchi (23 January 1899 – 25 May 1986) was an Italian writer. References 1899 births 1986 deaths Writers from Turin 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian poets {{Italy-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
