Roberto Roversi (28 January 1923 – 14 September 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and journalist.

Biography

Born in

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, he participated as an adolescent to the

Italian resistance movement The Italian Resistance ( ), or simply ''La'' , consisted of all the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy ...

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. From 1948 to 2006 he managed the antiquarian bookshop Libreria Palmaverda in Bologna. In 1955, together with

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and

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, he founded the magazine ''Officina''. In 1961 he started another literary magazine, ''Rendiconti''. In the same period, Roversi decided to stop selling his works to large publishers, and distributed them autonomously, often in amateur printing editions. In the early 1970s Roversi edited the far-left newspaper ''

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''. In 1973–1976, Roversi wrote lyrics for three albums by fellow Bolognese musician

Lucio Dalla Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of "Caruso (song), Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enri ...

: '' Il giorno aveva cinque teste'', '' Anidride solforosa'' and '' Automobili'', the latter under the pseudonym Norisso. He also wrote lyrics for the Bolognese band Stadio, including " Chiedi chi erano i Beatles". His song "Anidride solforosa" was sung in the 1990s also by Francesco De Gregori and Angela Baraldi. Roversi died in 2012 in Bologna.

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Radio Rai show about Robert Roversi
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