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Giorgio Orelli (May 25, 1921 – November 10, 2013) was an
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poet, writer and translator. He was born in
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in the canton of
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and was educated at the
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, where he was a student of the Roman
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. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in
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. Giorgio Orelli was a post- hermetic poet. In the
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of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation. Called the Tuscan from
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by
Gianfranco Contini Gianfranco Contini (4 January 1912 – 1 February 1990) was an Italian academic and philologist. He studied at the Collegio Mellerio Rosmini in Domodossola, then at the University of Pavia, where he graduated in 1933. Later, he studied also ...
, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism". He was also known as a translator of
Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...
and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (''
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'', ''Paragone'', ''Letteratura''). His cousin
Giovanni Orelli Giovanni Orelli (30 October 1928, in Bedretto, Switzerland – 3 December 2016, in Lugano) was a Swiss poet and writer who worked in Italian and the Ticinese dialect. His cousin Giorgio Orelli was a poet and literary critic. Life He studied at t ...
was also a writer and poet. Giorgio Orelli died in
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in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier
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Poetic works

*''Né bianco né viola'',
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, Collana di
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, 1944. *''Prima dell'anno nuovo'',
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, Leins e Vescovi, 1952. *''Poesie'',
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, Edizioni della Meridiana, 1953. *''Nel cerchio familiare'',
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, Scheiwiller, 1960. *''L'ora del tempo'',
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, 1962. *''6 poesie'',
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, Scheiwiller, 1964. *''5 poesie'', con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti,
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, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973. *''Sinopie'',
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, 1977. *''Spiracoli'',
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, 1989. *''Il collo dell'anitra'',
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, Garzanti, 2001.


Poems translated in English

* by Jean Garrigue, Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, Ohio, 1970 * by Lynne Lawner, * by Marco Sonzogn


Proses

*''Un giorno della vita'',
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, Lerici, 1960. *''Pomeriggio bellinzonese'' in ''Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli'', a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni,
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, Casagrande, 1978.


Translations

* Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, ''Poesie scelte'',
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, 1974.


Essays

*''Accertamenti verbali'',
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, Bompiani, 1978. *''Quel ramo del
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, 1982 e 1990. *''Accertamenti montaliani'',
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, Il Mulino, 1984. *''Il suono dei sospiri'',
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e la danzatrice'',
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, Casagrande, 2012.


Awards

* 1944 Premio
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* 1960 Premio Città di
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, Premio Libera Stampa * 1979
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* 1988 Grand Prix Schiller of the Swiss
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Foundation * 1997
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Culture Foundation * 2001 Premio Piero Chiara * 2002
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* 2008 BSI Award


External links

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Official Website
(Italian)


Notes


References

* Andri Peer, Giorgio Orelli: An Italian Poet from Switzerland, Books Abroad, 1971, p. 247-251 * John L. Flood, Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity, London, 1985 * P.V. Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento, Mondadori, 2003 * C. Mésoniat, Giorgio Orelli, poeta e critico, Casagrande, 1980 * John Butcher and Mario Moroni (Ed.), From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies, Leicester, 2004 * Luciano Anceschi, Linea lombarda, Magenta, Varese, 1952 * Pietro De Marchi, Dove portano le parole. Sulla poesia di Giorgio Orelli e altro Novecento, Manni, Lecce, 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Orelli, Giorgio 1921 births 2013 deaths People from Airolo Swiss writers People from Bellinzona Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe