Claudio Damiani is an Italian poet. He was born in San Giovanni Rotondo in the south of Italy (Puglia) in 1957 though at an early age, he moved to Rome where he still lives. He made his debut in 1978 in '' Nuovi Argomenti'', the magazine directed by

Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...

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and Bertolucci. In the first half of the 1980s, he was among the founders of the magazine ''Braci'', where a new classicism was proposed. Inspired by ancient Latin poets and by the Italian Renaissance, his themes are mainly nature and cosmos, with a side attention to current scientific research. "If the Horatian scenes of Sabina refer to a type of modern Arcadia, their specific quality is above all to approach a voice that is internal and literally poetic, refounded and reguarded like an unexpected and precious gift" (Roberto Galaverni, ''Contemporary Italian Poets'',

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no. 15, 1999). His poems have been interpreted by such actors as

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and

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. Main prizes and awards:

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, Premio Carducci, Premio Montale, Premio Luzi, Premio Lerici, Premio Volterra, Premio Laurentum,

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, Premio Frascati, Premio Alpi Apuane, Premio Camaiore.

Poetry

*Fraturno (Abete, 1987) *La mia casa (Pegaso, 1994) *La miniera (Fazi, 1997) *Eroi (Fazi, 2000) *Attorno al fuoco (Avagliano, 2006) *Sognando Li Po (Marietti, 2008) *Poesie (anthology 1984-2010 edited by Marco Lodoli, Fazi, 2010) *Il fico sulla fortezza (Fazi, 2012) *Ode al monte Soratte (Fuorilinea, 2015) *Cieli celesti (Fazi, 2016) *La vita comune. Poesie e commenti (with Arnaldo Colasanti) (Melville, 2018) *Endimione (Interno Poesia, 2019) *Prima di nascere (Fazi, 2022)(

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( or ) is an Italian literature, literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscany, Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Repaci, to rival the Milanese Bagutta Priz ...

) *Postomeriche (Amos Edizioni, 2024) *Rinascita (Fazi, 2025)

Theatrical texts

*Il Rapimento di Proserpina, in Prato Pagano, nn. 4-5, Il Melograno, 1987 *Ninfale, Lepisma, 2013

Essays

*Orazio, Arte poetica, con interventi di autori contemporanei (Fazi, 1995) *Le più belle poesie di

Trilussa Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano SalustriSome biographers as Claudio Rendina report ''Marianum'' as his fourth name (Rendina, p.19) (26 October 1871 – 21 December 1950), known by the pseudonym Trilussa (an anagram of his last name), was an Italia ...

(Mondadori, 2000) *La difficile facilità. Appunti per un laboratorio di poesia (Lantana Editore, 2016) *L'era nuova. Pascoli e i poeti di oggi, with Andrea Gareffi, (Liber Aria Edizioni, 2017)

Bibliography in English

* Franco Buffoni, Italian Contemporary Poets, Fuis, 2016 *New Italian Poetry, An Anthology, Edited by A. Moscè, Gradiva Publications, Stony Brook, New York, 2006, Tr. Emanuel di Pasquale, pp. 204–209 *Journal of Italian Translation, Vol. I, No. 2, 2006, Editor L. Bonaffini, Tr. Luigi Fontanella, pp. 168–169 *

Modern Poetry in Translation ''Modern Poetry in Translation'' is a literary magazine and publisher based in the United Kingdom. The magazine was started by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965. It was relaunched by King's College London in 1992. The college published ...

No. 15, Contemporary Italian Poets, King’s College London, 1999, Tr. John Satriano, pp. 31–34

References

External links

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