Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.

Biography

During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde ''

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'' movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. He was also an active translator of Joyce,

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, and select Greek and Latin authors. From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the

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of the

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. He was elected as an independent on the list of the PCI. He was an atheist.

Death

Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency

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for an abdominal aneurysm. He was 79.

Works

*''Capriccio italiano'', Feltrinelli, Milano, 1963 *''Il Giuoco dell'Oca'', Feltrinelli, Milano, 1967 *''Laborintus'', Magenta, Varese, 1956 *''Opus metricum'', Rusconi e Paolazzi, Milano, 1960 (contains ''Laborintus'' ed ''Erotopaegnia'') *''Triperuno'', Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964 (contains ''Opus metricum'' e ''Purgatorio de l'Inferno'') *''Natural Stories # 1 (Drama Series 16)'', Guernica, Toronto, 1998. Translated from: ''Storie Naturali #1'', Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971. *''Re-spira (Breathe)'' poem for

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, 1983,

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*''Il colore è mio'' -

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. *''Il Sonetto del foglio Volante'', poem for

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Translations

*''J. Joyce, Poesie'', Mondadori, Milano, 1961

References

1930 births 2010 deaths Gruppo 63 Italian atheists Italian male writers Writers from Genoa Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates {{Italy-writer-stub