Alberto Bertoni (born 1955) is an Italian poet, literary critic and professor at

Università degli Studi di Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

Career

The poet Bertoni was born to

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

and since 1993 has been teaching Italian literature at

Bologna University The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

. He is the author of ''Dai simbolisti al Novecento. Le origini del verso libero italiano'' (il Mulino: Bologna 1995), ''Una geografia letteraria tra Emilia e Romagna'' (CLUEB: Bologna 1997); ''Partiture critiche'' (Pacini: Pisa 2000); ''Una distratta venerazione. La poesia metrica di Giudici'' (Book Editore: Castel Maggiore 2001); ''Il sosia di Providence e altri incontri fra l'Emilia e l'America'' (Diabasis: Reggio Emilia 2002); ''Montale vs. Ungaretti'' (Carocci: Roma 2003, edited with Jonathan Sisco); ''La poesia. Come si legge e come si scrive'' (il Mulino: Bologna 2006); of the autobiography with

Francesco Guccini Francesco Guccini (, born 14 June 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important '' cantautori'' of his time. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live a ...

''Non so che viso avesse'' (Mondadori: Milano 2010); ''La poesia contemporanea'' (il Mulino: Bologna 2012); ''Poesia italiana dal Novecento a oggi'' (Marietti 1820: Bologna 2019).

Poetry

* ''Lettere stagionali'', Castel Maggiore (Book Editore: 1996); with a note of

Giovanni Giudici Giovanni Giudici (26 June 1924, in Le Grazie – 24 May 2011, in La Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in th ...

. * ''Tatì'', Castel Maggiore (Book Editore: 1999). * ''Il catalogo è questo. Poesie 1978-2000'', Parma (Il cavaliere azzurro: 2000). * ''Le cose dopo. Poesie 1999-2003'', Torino (Aragno: 2003). * ''Ho visto perdere Varenne'', Lecce (Manni: 2006). * ''Mi sembrava un attimo fa'', Milano (Quaderni di Orfeo: 2007). * ''Zitèe cìna'', Milano (Il ragazzo innocuo: 2007). * ''Ricordi di Alzheimer. Una storia'' (Castel Maggiore Book: 2008). * ''Il letto vuoto'', Torino (Aragno: 2012). * ''Traversate'', Firenze (Società Editrice Fiorentina: 2014). * ''Poesie 1980-2014'', Torino (Aragno: 2018). * ''Ricordi e cromosomi. Poesie 2014-2017'', Azzate (Stampa 2009: 2018). * ''Zàndri'', Ro Ferrarese (Book: 2018). * ''Cavalli e poesia'', Reggio Emilia (Corsiero: 2018). * ''Irlandesi'', Reggio Emilia (Corsiero: 2020). * ''L'isola dei topi'', Torino (

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: 2021). * ''Culo di tua mamma. Autobestiario 2013-2022'', Fanna (Samuele Editore: 2022). * ''Libro dell'ansia'', Ro Ferrarese (Book: 2024).

References

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