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Giorgio Orelli (25 May 1921 – 10 November 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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Gianfranco Contini. 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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and Luciano Erba, he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation. Called the Tuscan from
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by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism". He was also known as a translator of
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and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (''
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'', ''Paragone'', ''Letteratura''). His cousin Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet. Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona 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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,
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, 1962. *''6 poesie'',
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, Scheiwiller, 1964. *''5 poesie'', con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti, San Nazzaro, Switzerland, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973. *''Sinopie'',
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,
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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
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in Verse Daily, and Jean Garrigue, ed. Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, Ohio, 1970 * by Marco Sonzogn


Prose

*''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 lago di Como'',
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,
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, 1982 e 1990. *''Accertamenti montaliani'',
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, Il Mulino, 1984. *''Il suono dei sospiri'',
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, Einaudi, 1990. *'' Foscolo e la danzatrice'',
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, Pratiche, 1992. *''La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi'',
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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 Piero Chiara (23 March 1913 – 31 December 1986) was an Italian writer. He was born in Luino, Italy. His father Eugenio was from Resuttano, Sicily, and his mother Virginia Maffei was from Comnago, a Piedmontese village in the municipality of ...
* 2002
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* 2008 BSI Award

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External links

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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, Lombard line, 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