Duccia Camiciotti (19 March 1928 – 7 July 2014) was an Italian poet, writer and essayist.
Studies and early life
Camiciotti's studies were founded in the Classics. She attended
Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the a ...
(Silvio d’Amico Accademia d’Arte Drammatica) under the guidance of director
Orazio Costa
Orazio Costa (6 August 1911 – 14 November 1999) was an Italian theatre pedagogist and director.
Born Orazio Costa Giovangigli in Rome, Costa graduated at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937, and after being assistant director ...
. She graduated with a degree in
journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
from the
University of Urbino
The University of Urbino Carlo Bo (, ''UniUrb'') is an Italian university located in Urbino, in the region of Marche, in north-eastern central Italy. The main campus occupies numerous buildings throughout the historic Urbino town center and the ...
, where she attended the school of literary and aesthetic criticism of humanist
Carlo Bo
Carlo Bo (25 January 1911 – 21 July 2001) was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinguished humanist, professor and senator for life from 1984.
Biography
Bo was born on January 25, 1911, in Sestri Levante, Italy.
From 1929 to 1934, he a ...
. She became a teacher of Aesthetics at the
Sharoff-Staniwslawskji Theater Academy in Rome, Italy.
Camiciotti met her husband, Claudio Battistich, in
Florence, Italy
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence was a centre of medieval European t ...
, where she was his assistant as Director of the Center for Oriental Studies.
Camiciotti is an Executive Advisor and President of the Camerata dei Poeti, the city of Florence's Chamber of poetry in the tradition of the
Florentine Camerata
The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, were a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in ...
, and on the Board of Advisors of the
Modigliani Art Center of
Scandicci
Scandicci () is a ''comune'' (municipality) of c. 50,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence.
Scandicci borders the following municipalities: Campi Bisenzio, Floren ...
. Her five poetry collections have won cultural prizes. Her work has been reviewed by leading Italian newspapers such as
La Nazione
''La Nazione'' is one of the oldest regional newspapers in Italy, and was established on 8 July 1859. The paper is based in Florence.
History and profile
''La Nazione'' was founded by Bettino Ricasoli, interim head of the Tuscan government. Th ...
,
Il Giornale
(), known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as (), is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 in May 2023. In 2006, it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers.
History an ...
, the Corriere di Firenze, and Poesia.
In 2010 he starred in the literary artistic encounter "From Florence to the Stars" organized by La Pergola Arte Florence Art and curated by Peter Michael Musone to the Regional Council of Tuscany with book of poetry "The Last Anomalous Wave".
A resident of Florence, Italy, her poetry has been presented in readings with contemporaries Alda Merini,
Maria Luisa Spaziani
Maria Luisa Spaziani (7 December 1922 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vinc ...
, and
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Early life and education
Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). ...
, and she traveled to Moscow, Russia for cultural literary events with Russian poet Eugene Evtushenko in association with Russia's Minister of Foreign Culture.
Bibliography
Published works
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Anthologies
* ''Slanci e partecipazione'' ''(Impulse and Sharing)''; Bastogi Editors
Periodicals and magazines
* Pegasus (Art Director, Contributing Editor)
* Città di Vita (City Life) (Editorial Board)
* Alla bottega (To the Store)
* Angeli e Poeti (Angels and Poets)
* Milano
* Orizzonti (Horizons) (Rome, Italy)
Awards and honors
* 2008 Sacravita Poetry Prize
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* 1999 Ibiskos Prize (for ''Recurring Dream'') Turin Book Fair
* Habere Artem prize ("Sangrila", Aletti publishers)
* Brunellesco Prize (La Donna Nell'arte)
* Romena Prize
* Casentino Prize
References
External links
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1928 births
2014 deaths
People from Bracciano
Italian essayists
Italian women essayists
Italian women poets
20th-century Italian poets
20th-century Italian women writers
20th-century Italian essayists