Summary
Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
Edoardo Sanguineti | |
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 Edoardo Sanguineti at a meeting in Genoa on lexicon and Open Source publications. | |
| 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 |
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 60s.
During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo-avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. His work was published in the first issue of 0 to 9 magazine in 1967.
He was also an active translator of Joyce, Molière, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and select Greek and Latin authors.
From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of the PCI.
He was an atheist.[2]
Death edit
Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency surgery for an abdominal 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 (contains Laborintus ed Erotopaegnia)
- Triperuno, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964 (contains Opus metricum e Purgatorio de l'Inferno)
- Natural Stories # 1 (Drama Series 16), Guernica, Toronto, 1998. Translated from: Storie Naturali #1, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971.
- Re-spira (Breathe) poem for Antonio Papasso, 1983, MoMA, New York City
- Il colore è mio - Antonio Papasso -Retrospettiva 1999, Palazzo Comunale di Bracciano.
- Il Sonetto del foglio Volante, poem for Antonio 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. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 26 March 2018.