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Edoardo Sanguineti

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Edoardo Sanguineti
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
ConstituencyGenoa
Personal details
Born(1930-12-09)9 December 1930
Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Died18 May 2010(2010-05-18) (aged 79)
Genoa, Italian Republic
Resting placeMonumental Cemetery of Staglieno[1]
Political partyItalian Communist Party
OccupationPoet, novelist, essayist, translator

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.

Biography

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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-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 Italian Communist Party.

He was an atheist.[2]

Death

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Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency surgery for an abdominal aneurysm. He was 79.[3]

Works

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  • 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

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  • J. Joyce, Poesie, Mondadori, Milano, 1961

References

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  1. ^ "Pantheon, Sanguineti tra i grandi" (in Italian). Il Secolo XIX. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. ^ Aldo Cazzullo, I ragazzi di via Po, Mondadori, 1997, pag. 158.
  3. ^ "Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet, 79, dies". The Boston Globe. Associated Press. 18 May 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2018.