Patrizia Vicinelli (

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, 23 August 1943 – 9 January 1991) was an Italian poet, writer, artist and actress. Vincinelli was born in Bologna, where she grew up. She enrolled at the

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with the ambition to become a Literare Professor but never completed her studies. In the early 1960s, she started performing

sound poetry Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poe ...

and

concrete poetry Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct mea ...

. In 1966, she attended a conference held in

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by the avant-garde literary group and was later invited to become a member. She contributed to literary magazines such as ''

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'', ''Doc(k)s'', ''Marcatré'', ''Ex'' and ''Quindici''. Her work in experimental theatre and contemporary music brought her to collaborate with poets and writers such as

Emilio Villa Emilio Villa (Milan, 21 September 1914 – Rieti, 14 January 2003) was an Italian poet, visual artist, translator, art critic and Bible scholar. His poems reflected his knowledge of modern and ancient languages, including Italian, French, English, ...

, Adriano Spatola and Franco Beltrametti. She also performed in

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films such as ''In viaggio con Patrizia'' (1965) and ''Virulentia'' (1967) by Alberto Grifi; ''La Notte e il giorno'' by Gianni Castagnoli (1967); and '' Toxic Love'' by

Claudio Caligari Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was ''P ...

(1983). Vicinelli died in

in 1991.

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* ''à,a.A'', Lerici,

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, 1967 * ''Ezio Gribaudo: Il peso del concreto'', Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo,

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, 1967 * ''Continuum: Foglio a redazione collettiva'', no. 4, Continuum,

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, 1970 * ''Signos Espacio Arte – exposicion internacional de la poesia concreta al arte conceptual'', Club Pueblo,

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, 1973 * ''Arti visive, poesia visiva'', Editrice Magma,

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, 1974 * ''Oggi Poesia Domani. Rassegna internazionale di poesia visuale e fonetica'', Fiuggi Editore,

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, 1979 * ''El Lissitzky: Due quadrati'', Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 * ''Apology of a Schizoid Woman'', Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 * ''Il colpo di glottide. La poesia come fisicità e materia'', Vallecchi Editore, Florence, 1980 * ''Mini 3'', Scorribanda Productions, Riva San Vitale,

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, 1986 * ''Non sempre ricordano'', AElia Laelia, Bologna, 1986 * ''Scrittura visuale in Italia 1912-1972'', Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 1973 * ''

Nanni Balestrini Nanni Balestrini (2 July 1935 – 19 May 2019) was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement. Context Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers' movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote fo ...

, Franco Vaccari, Patrizia Vicinelli: A Column, a Bar, a Voice'', Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Milan, 1994

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* 1943 births 1991 deaths Gruppo 63 Italian women poets Italian contemporary artists 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian actresses Writers from Bologna 20th-century Italian women writers {{Italy-writer-stub

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