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

In 1956, Sanguineti published his first poetry collection, Laborintus. The author adopted a “labyrinthine” structure in these poems, preceding the poetic sperimentalism that characterized the 1960s. During the 1960s, he was a leader of the neo-avant-garde '' Gruppo 63'' movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. His work was published in the first issue of 0 to 9 magazine in 1967. 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

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. 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 Antonio Papasso, 1983,

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*''Il colore è mio'' - Antonio Papasso -Retrospettiva 1999, Palazzo Comunale di Bracciano. *''Il Sonetto del foglio Volante'', poem for Antonio Papasso, 2006 - Italian Air Force Museum, Vigna di Valle

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