Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti | |
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 Edoardo Sanguineti at a meeting inGenoaon lexicon andopen sourcepublications. | |
| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 June 1979 – 11 July 1983 | |
| Constituency | Genoa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 December 1930 Genoa,Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 18 May 2010(aged 79) Genoa,Italian Republic |
| Resting place | Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno[1] |
| Political party | Italian Communist Party |
| Occupation | Poet,novelist,essayist,translator |
Edoardo Sanguineti(9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was aGenoesepoet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
Biography
[edit]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-gardeGruppo 63movement, founded in 1963 atSolunto.His work was published in the first issue of0 to 9 magazinein 1967. He was also an active translator ofJoyce,Molière,Shakespeare,Bertolt Brecht,and select Greek and Latin authors.
From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of theChamber of Deputiesof theItalian Parliament.He was elected as an independent on the list of theItalian Communist Party.
He was an atheist.[2]
Death
[edit]Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergencysurgeryfor anabdominal aneurysm.He was 79.[3]
Works
[edit]- Capriccio italiano,Feltrinelli, Milano, 1963
- Il Giuoco dell'Oca,Feltrinelli, Milano, 1967
- Laborintus,Magenta, Varese, 1956
- Opus metricum,Rusconi e Paolazzi, Milano, 1960 (containsLaborintusedErotopaegnia)
- Triperuno,Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964 (containsOpus metricumePurgatorio de l'Inferno)
- Natural Stories # 1 (Drama Series 16),Guernica, Toronto, 1998. Translated from:Storie Naturali #1,Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971.
- Re-spira (Breathe)poem forAntonio Papasso,1983,MoMA,New York City
- Il colore è mio-Antonio Papasso-Retrospettiva 1999, Palazzo Comunale diBracciano.
- Il Sonetto del foglio Volante,poem forAntonio Papasso,2006 -Italian Air Force Museum,Vigna di Valle
Translations
[edit]- J. Joyce, Poesie,Mondadori, Milano, 1961
References
[edit]- ^"Pantheon, Sanguineti tra i grandi"(in Italian). Il Secolo XIX. 20 May 2010.Retrieved26 March2018.
- ^Aldo Cazzullo,I ragazzi di via Po,Mondadori, 1997, pag. 158.
- ^"Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet, 79, dies".The Boston Globe.Associated Press.18 May 2010.Retrieved26 March2018.
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