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Hrand Nazariantz (Հրանտ Նազարեանց, January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an Ottoman
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poet and translator who lived most of his life in Italy.


Biography

Born in the
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district of
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on January 8, 1880, he was the son of Diran Nazariantz, a businessman and member of the
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from the district of Kumkapı, and Azniv Merametdjian. He attended the Berberian College from 1898, but he was expelled because of a relationship with another future writer, Mannig Berberian, daughter of Reteos Berberian, founder and owner of the college, and for asking her to marry him. In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, and was hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy." In the same year he completed the first draft of his collection ''Crucified Dreams''. In 1905 he matriculated at the Sorbonne in Paris and joined the Armenian liberation movement. In 1907 he went back to the
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because of his father's illness, to take over the management of the family business, established in the production of carpets and lace, which gave work to about two thousand workers, located in the districts of
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, Kumkapı,
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. This commitment continued along with his involvement in journalism and literary writing.


Political and literary activity in the Ottoman Empire

In 1908 he published the newspaper '' Surhantag'' (The Messenger) with Dikran Zaven, and in 1909 he founded the political and literary weekly '' Nor Hosank'' (New Wave), in collaboration with Karekin Gozikyan, called ''Yessalem'', who was the founder of the first workers' union of the Armenian press in the
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(''Matbaa İşçileri Meslek Birliği''). He also works with fiction writer
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and playwright
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in the magazine of art and controversy '' Baguine'' (Temple). Also Atom Yarjanian (
Siamanto Adom Yarjanian (), better known by his pen name Siamanto (; 15 August 1878 – August 1915), was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was killed by the Ottoman authoritie ...
), an important Armenian journalist, wrote in this magazine. In 1910 tries to establish with
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and Kegham Parseghian a circle of innovative art around ''Les volontés folles''. In the same field comes out in
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, accompanied by illustrations of cartoonists Enrico Sacchetti, and Yambo, the important essay on F.T. Marinetti and
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(''FT Marinetti and apagajapaštoitiine''). In the same year he publishes a series of poetry books that stand out as the leading exponent of so-called
symbol A symbol is a mark, Sign (semiotics), sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, physical object, object, or wikt:relationship, relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by cr ...
poetry in Armenian. From 1911 is in correspondence with
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, Gian Pietro Lucini, Libero Altomare and engages on essays and translations in
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, to make known their poetry together with that of Corrado Govoni and Enrico Cardile as part of a larger work of renovation in literature in the Armenian language in the light of the important Italian and French literature and historical events. In the same year Yenovk Armen published an essay titled ''Hrand Nazariantz and His Crucified Dreams''. In the same line is to be included in the volume ''Le Tasse et ses traducteurs arméniens''. the test was preceded by a letter of recommendation from a famous linguist, philologist and translator of Dante's era father Arsen Ghazikian of Mechitar Congregation of
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. This work, having as its topic translations into Armenian of
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's opera, released in French for the publishing house Arzouman types of
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in 1912. Also in 1912, the re-release of ''The Crucified Dreams'' requires the attention of the public and critics. From 1913 appear the original versions of the texts ''Aurora, soul of beauty'', ''Gloria Victis'', ''The Crown of Thorns'', ''The great hymn of cosmic tragedy'' and an essay on
Hranush Arshagyan Heranush (Nargiz) Arshagian (Armenian: Հերանուշ (Նարգիզ) Արշակեան) (July 28, 1887 in Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey – 1905 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire) was an Ottoman Armenian poet. Life Heranush Arshagian was ...
. Engaged in recent years to obtain the support of European intellectuals to the Armenian cause, finds in Italy other supporters. Among these are undoubtedly highlighting
Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian Literary realism, realist (''Verismo (literature), verista'') writer. His novels ''I Malavoglia'' (1881) and ''Mastro-don Gesualdo'' (1889) are widel ...
,
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and later Umberto Zanotti Bianco, and many other well-known Italian and European intellectuals associated with the Masonic and Rosicrucian fraternities. Sentenced to death in absentia by a court of the Ottoman Empire in 1913, he found asylum in the Italian Consulate of Constantinople, and once he obtains the nationality following marriage to the singer from Casamassima, Maddalena De Cosmis,Ritrovata una Lettera di Maddalena De Cosmis a Diran Timurian (senior)
in Centro Studi "Hrand Nazariantz", 03 aprile 2016 called Lena, occurred on February 10, he moves to
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in exile. There are, however, reports of cohabitation with Lena De Cosmis, the daughter of Leonardo De Cosmis, starting from 1911 through the header of a letter. The poet Gian Pietro Lucini, a friend of Nazariantz, two years before marriage, in fact, addressed his letters to the "family De Cosmis-Nazariantz" at "the Italian Post Office at Galata suburb of Constantinople". Arriving in Italy, he intensified the relations with members of the Armenian diaspora and with the protagonists of the Italian culture, French and English, going abroad for study. At the same time he was hired as a professor of French and English at the Technical, Marine, and Professional Institute in
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.


Literary activity in Italy

In 1915 collaborates with ''Il Ritmo'' and he prints for Laterza editors in Bari the first volume of the collection ideal of knowledge ''
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'' directed by him, his essay on the Armenian poet Bedros Tourian, and presentation of Enrico Cardile, which will also translate, for editions of the magazine ''Humanitas'' of Bari, ''I sogni Crocifissi'' (1916), ''Lo Specchio'' (1920) and ''Vahakn'' (1920). Next year is the beginning of collaboration '' The Hardening'' by Renato Fondi, with which will establish a regular and lasting relationship. Following Nazariantz comes into contact with avant-garde Sicilian magazines hosting his contributions: ''The climb''(1917), ''The Literary Kindler'' (1917) and ''La spirale'' where in 1919 has published an extract from the poem ''Lo Specchio''. In Bari became a friend of Franco Casavola and is committed to promoting music production. The two work together to organize, with the help of
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, Giacomo Favia, Tina Suglia, and others, the Futurist evening at Teatro Piccinni of Bari, September 26, 1922. A few months later, on January 2, 1923, the evening's program at the futuristic Teatro Margherita Bari includes "the mimic action-drama" entitled "Lo specchio", with music by Franco Casavola Nazariantz inspired by the poem. In 1924 the Alpes publishing house by
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publishes the collection ''Tre poemi'', including "Heaven of Shadows", "Aurora anima di bellezza ", "Saadi Nazyade flower," translated by Cesare Giardini. In the same year his commitment to supporting the Armenian cause is also responsible for the foundation of Nor Arax, a village for Armenian exiles in the countryside of Bari, whose population helped nourish the production of carpets and lace. Today, what is left of Nor Arax is a few of the original houses as well as the columns at the entrance of the village on which the words "Nor Arax" (in both English and Armenian) are engraved. Nor Arax is located at the address Via Giovanni Amendola, 154 70126 Bari, Italy. After 1943 he worked in
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for which he wrote and read various conferences of literary topic. In the same year he founded the magazines for inspiration symbolic-Masonic "Holy Grail" (1946) and "Graalismo" (1958) directed with his friend the poet and writer Potito Giorgio. On both serials writings appeared, among others,
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, Ada Negri, Liliana Scalero, Elpidio Jenco, Giuseppe Villaroel, Lionello Fiumi, Charles Plisnier and other photographs of well-known and lesser-known painters, among them to remembe
Fryda Laureti Ciletti
The Italian translation of "Il Grande Canto della Cosmica tragedia" was published in 1946. Nazariantz published the "Manifesto Graalico" in 1951. In it, considered ending the Italian avant-garde, and the other signatories Nazariantz entrusted the resolution of intellectual-society relationship to the absolute primacy of art. In 1952 was published in the latest anthology entitled "Il ritorno dei poeti." In 1953 a number of Italian and foreign intellectuals proposed his candidacy for the
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of Literature, which was finally awarded to
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. At the requests of the documents found in the name of Nazariantz highlight a lack of effectiveness on the part of applicants and it includes well as non-acceptance.


The last few years and death

The last years of Nazariantz's life were characterized by heightened economic hardships that had plagued him throughout his life as a stateless person. At the end of the fifties he was admitted to a hospital in
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, where he was surrounded by affection and esteem of some young friends Conversano, not that they wanted to rediscover the enormous human and intellectual value. In recent years, verified the nullity of his first marriage, also died Vittoria Strazzaboschi his faithful companion for many years, wed with Maria Lucarelli. In 1960 he moved from
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, a town he so loved, to Casamassima, also in the province of
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, where he lived in conditions of almost complete destitution with his second wife Maria Lucarelli. He died two years later in 1962. Throughout his life, maintained a great admiration for the fairer sex, which had a glimpse of the symbolism of Miriam, due, perhaps, the mystical and esoteric teachings of
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. Nazariantz is buried in the ''Cimitero Monumentale'' cemetery of
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(entrance to the cemetery is located at the intersection of Via Nazariantz Hrand and Via Francesco Crispi), in an almost anonymous tomb that only bears his name, dates of birth and death, and the label of "POETA" (poet). The address of the tomb within the cemetery is ''campo'' 34, number 206. The tomb is owned by the family of Diran Timurian, an entrepreneur in the import-export of oriental carpets, one of many Armenians whose family had arrived in Bari thanks to Nazariantz's humanitarian work.


Quotes

The Sicilian poet Enrico Cardile, wrote of him: "Nazariantz is a man of inexhaustible energy, a consistently exceptional, with a prodigious enthusiasm, fascinating in its resolute modesty. His enthusiasm can community, his passion becomes epidemic, if you know you will love it, if you love him you feel ready to share its risks and dedicate to his cause (Ed namely Armenia free)" Daniel Varujan, known Armenian poet, wrote: "Nazariantz has written poems that can match those in their splendor deep
Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools o ...
, French poet. His soul has in fact an exceptional affinity with the soul of the prince of poets. Soul always be striving intoxication unknown and indefinite that one can hardly perceive through the human aspiration. His images are evocative of a depth. Nazariantz is a poet of light"


Works

*«Եղիա Տէմիրճիպաշեանի սիրային նամակները, 1886-1889. երկու ինքնատիպ լուսանկարներով եւ իր ձեռագիր մէկ նամակով» (Love Letters of Yeghia Demirjibashian, 1886-1889: with Two Original Photographs and A Handwritten Letter),
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, Der-Nersesian, 1910 *«Ֆ.Թ. Մառինէթթի եւ ապագայապաշտութիւնը» (F. T. Marinetti and Futurism),
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, Onnig Parseghian and Son, 1910 *«Հերանուշ Արշակեան. Իր կեանքը եւ բանաստեղծությունները» ( Heranush Arshakian: Her Life and Poetry),
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, Der Nersesian, 1910 *«Դասսօ եւ իր հայ թարգմանիչները» (Tasso and His Armenian Translators),
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, Arzouman, 1912 *«Խաչուած երազներ» (Crucified Dreams),
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, Der-Nersesian, 1912 *'' Bedros Tourian poeta armeno, dalla sua vita e dalle sue pagine migliori'', con cenno sull'arte armena. Con una presentazione di Enrico Cardile, Bari, Laterza, 1915 *''L'Armenia, il suo martirio e le sue rivendicazioni'', con introduzione di Giorgio D'Acandia (pseud. di Umberto Zanotti Bianco), Catania, Battiato, 1916 *''I trovieri dell'Armenia nella loro vita e nei loro canti: con cenno sui canti popolari armeni'', prefazione di Ferdinando Russo Bari, Humanitas, 1916 *''I sogni crocefissi'', versione italiana di Enrico Cardile; con una premessa del traduttore e note bio-bibliografiche,
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, Humanitas, 1916 *'' Arsciak Ciobanian: nella sua vita e nelle sue pagine migliori'', in collaborazione di Mario Virgilio Garea; con prefazione di Mario Pilo, Bari, Humanitas, 1917 *''Muoio di sete...'', da ''La tristezza delle rosee nudità'', canto e pianoforte di Franco Casavola, parole di Hrand Nazariantz, Milano, Ricordi e C., 1920 *''Lo specchio'', versione italiana di Enrico Cardile,
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, Humanitas, 1920 *''Vahakn'', versione italiana di Enrico Cardile,
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, Humanitas, 1920 *''L'arte di
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'', 1924 *''Tre poemi'', tradusse dall'armeno C. Giardini,
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, Alpes, 1924 *''O sonno, sonno, nostra ultima festa'' dal '' Paradiso delle Ombre di Hrand Nazariantz'', traduzione dall'armeno di C. Giardini. Poemetto per canto e pianoforte,
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, Bongiovanni, 1935 *''Il grande canto della cosmica tragedia: Hur Hayran''. Versione italiana di Enrico Cardile, con una allocuzione estetico ermetica di Eli Drac. Xilografie di Piero Casotti, Bari, Ed. Gioconda, 1946 e 1948 *''Il ritorno dei poeti ed altre poesie'',
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, Kursaal, 1952 *Հրանտ Նազարեանց, «Աստեղահեւ Մենութիւն - Ընտրանի» (Star-Filled Solitude: Anthology),
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, Sargis Khachents, 2008. *''I Sogni Crocifissi'', poesie scelte a cura di Dorella Cianci,
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, Sentieri Meridiani, 2011


Secondary bibliography

* Yenovk Armen, ''Hrand Nazariantz e i suoi Sogni Crocifissi'', Costantinopoli, Der Nersessian, 1911 * Simon Eremian (Atrushan), Հրանտ Նազարեանց: Ուսումնասիրական ակնարկ մը, Ղալաթիա, տպ. Շանթ, 1912. * Giuseppe Cartella Gelardi, ''Per la traduzione italiana de "I sogni crocefissi" di Hrand Nazariantz'', Bari, Soc. tip. editrice barese, 1916 * Giulio Gaglione, ''La benda sugli occhi: Primo saggio di una interpretazione generale della poesia contemporanea'', Napoli, Ed. delle "Crociere Barbare", 1919 * Massimo Gaglione, ''La Poesia di Hrand Nazariantz'', Marcianise, autoedizione, 1918 *Massimo Gaglione, ''Nazariantz e Barbusse'',
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, 1921 * Raffaele Carrieri, Con Hrand Nazariantz al villaggio armeno “Nor Arax”, “Il Mezzogiorno”, 15-16 novembre 1927. * Giuseppe Cartella Gelardi, ''Il grande canto della Cosmica tragedia'', Milano, 1932 *Domenico Tarantini, Compie trentatré anni la repubblica del vecchio poeta, in "Settimo Giorno", 1958. *Giuseppe Lucatuorto, Un poeta cosmico, Hrand Nazariantz, "Il Corriere del giorno". Bari 16 febbraio 1962. * Pasquale Sorrenti, ''Hrand Nazariantz. Uomo, poeta, patriota'',
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, Levante, 1978. *Mara Filippozzi, ''Hrand Nazariantz. Poeta armeno esule in Puglia'',
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, Congedo, 1987. *Domenico Cofano (a cura di), ''Hrand Nazariantz fra Oriente e Occidente''. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Conversano, 28-29 novembre 1987),
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, Schena, 1987 *Domenico Cofano, ''Il crocevia occulto. Lucini, Nazariantz e la cultura del primo Novecento'', Fasano, Schena, 1990. *
Krikor Beledian Krikor Beledian (, born Beirut, 1945) is a prolific Armenian poet, novelist, and literary critic living in France. After graduating from the Armenian Lyceum Nshan Palandjian of Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1967, where he studied philosophy at th ...
, ''Haykakan apakayapashtutiun yev Hrand Nazariantz'', (trad. Il futurismo armeno e Hrand Nazariantz), in "Bazmavep", Revue d’etudes armeniennes, Venezia 1990, vol.3-4, (in armeno). * Yervant Ter Khachatrian
Nazariantz lusavor banasteghtz'', (trad. ''Hrand Nazariantz è un poeta luminoso'')
in "Azg Daily cultural online", 29/04/2006. *Paolo Lopane, ''Hrand Nazariantz, troviero d'Armenia'', in "Vie della Tradizione", Anno XXXVII, N. 147 (settembre-dicembre 2007) *Paolo Lopane (a cura di), ''Hrand Nazariantz, Fedele d'Amore'',
Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...
, FAL Vision, 2012. *Vartan Matiossian, ''Letters of Hrand Nazariantz to Yenovk Armen'', "Bazmavep: Hayagtakan banasirakan grakan handes", 165, 2007, pp. 323–380 *''Armenia: lo sterminio dimenticato'', a cura di Tiziano Arrigoni,
Piombino Piombino is an Italian town and ''comune'' of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma. Ov ...
, La bancarella, 2008 *
Krikor Beledian Krikor Beledian (, born Beirut, 1945) is a prolific Armenian poet, novelist, and literary critic living in France. After graduating from the Armenian Lyceum Nshan Palandjian of Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1967, where he studied philosophy at th ...
, ''Haykakan Futurizm - Armenian Futurism'',
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, Sargis Khachents P.H., 2009 *Carlo Coppola
Nazariantz, la storia di un uomo unico vissuto nel Sud''
"LSD Magazine", Bari 10/03/2011. *Emilia Askhen De Tommasi, ''Nor Arax: storia del villaggio Armeno di Bari'', Bari, LB edizioni, 2017,


Archives

*ANIMI,
Galleria Fotografica A.N.I.M.I. sezione "Nor Arax"
' *Centro Studi "Hrand Nazariantz",
Centro Studi Hrand Nazariantz
',
Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...
, Italy *Centro Ricerche di Storia e Arte - Conversano,
L'Archivio Nazariantz
',
Conversano Conversano (Bari dialect, Barese: ) is an ancient town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, south-eastern Italy. It is southeast of Bari and from the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast, at above sea level. The counts of Conversan ...
, Italy


Critical Essay

* Paolo Lopane, Hrand Nazariantz, troviero d'Armenia, in "Vie della Tradizione", Anno XXXVII, N. 147 (settembre-dicembre 2007) * Մելանիա Բադալեան,
ՏԱԼԱՑԻՆԵՐԻ ՀԱՐԳԱՆՔԻ ՏՈՒՐՔԸՙ ՀՐԱՆՏ ՆԱԶԱՐՅԱՆՑԻՆ
''azg.am'', 28/10/2012 * Carlo Coppola,
Hrand Nazariantz, la storia di un uomo unico vissuto nel Sud
', lsdmagazine.it * ՅՈՒՐԻ ԽԱՉԱՏՐՅԱՆ,
Hrand Nazariantz. Poeta Luminoso
', azg.am * (traduction) Georges Festa
Nazariantz, un poète arménien à Bari
armenews.com * Francesco Medici,

', ''Paneacqua'',6 febbraio 2012. * Vito Ricci,
Il legame millenario tra la Puglia e gli Armeni
', modugno.it * Vito Ricci,

', in comunitaarmena.it * Domenico Vittorio Ripa Montesano,

', notiziariomassonicoitaliano.blogspot.it * Magda Vigilante,

', filidaquilone.it, * Magda Vigilante,

', comunitaarmena.it * Չարչարենց, ttp://ustahrant.blogspot.com/2010/05/20.html#comment-form Հրանտ Նազարյանց` 20-րդ դարասկզբի հայ բանաստեղծ Ustahrant, 05/07/2010


Video

* Valerio Droga,
Nor Arax e Il ritorno della Memoria
' in ''Nor Arax, enclave armena in territorio italiano'', Università degli Studi di Palermo, A.A. 2006-2007 * Delta TV, Carlo Coppola parla di Hrand Nazariantz,
parte prima
',
parte 2
', 15/03/2011, * Convegno, ''Hrand Nazariantz: Le Tracce e il Volto''
intervento biografico di Carlo Coppola
Conversano (Ba), Chiesa di San Giuseppe, 05/12/2011 * a cura di Enzo del Vecchio

12/02/2012. * a cura di Enzo del Vecchio
Servizio Giornalistico "Il poeta Armeno"
ESTOVEST - Puntata del 4 marzo 2012] * Presentazione del volume "Un legame tra Nardò e l'Armenia" - intervento di Rosalia Chiarappa
parte primaparte seconda
Nardò (Le) 20/02/2012. * Delta TV,
Carlo Coppola parla di Hrand Nazariantz e Carmelo Bene
', 10/03/2012, * Presentazione del volum
Il Genocidio Armeno nella storia e nella memoria di Maria Immacolata Macioti
Lecce (Officine culturali ERGOT) 22/03/2012. * Presentazione del volum
Hrand Nazariantz, Fedele d'Amore
Bari (Libreria Laterza) 15/04/2012. * Presentazione del volum
Hrand Nazariantz, Fedele d'Amore
Bari (Sala Consiliare del Comune) 20/02/2012. * Inaugurazione della mostra
Hrand Nazariantz: L'Oriente, le tracce, il volto
', Acquaviva delle Fonti, 03/09/2012


Essays

* Paolo Lopane (a cura di), ''Hrand Nazariantz, Fedele d'Amore'',
Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...
, FAL Vision, 2012. * Carlo Coppola,
Hrand Nazariantz, la storia di un uomo unico vissuto nel Sud
', lsdmagazine.it * ՅՈՒՐԻ ԽԱՉԱՏՐՅԱՆ,
Hrand Nazariantz. Poeta Luminoso
', azg.am * Paolo Lopane,

', lopanepaolo.it * Vito Ricci,
Il legame millenario tra la Puglia e gli Armeni
', modugno.it * Magda Vigilante,

', filidaquilone.it, n.9 * Չարչարենց

Ustahrant, 05/07/2010. * Francesco Medici,
Arslan e Nazariantz, voci del popolo armeno
', ''Paneacqua'', 6 febbraio 2012. *Emilia Askhen De Tommasi, ''Nor Arax: storia del villaggio Armeno di Bari'', Bari, LB edizioni, 2017,


References

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