Alessandro Agostinelli (; 1965) is an Italian writer,

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and poet.

Early life

Born in

Follonica Follonica () is a town and ''comune'' (township) of province of Grosseto in the Italian region of Tuscany, on the Gulf of Follonica (''Golfo di Follonica''), about northwest of the city of Grosseto. History It was founded in 1834 by Grand Duke L ...

, he obtained a Ph.D. in "history of visual arts and show business".

Journalism

He worked for Radio 24, Radio Tre Rai,

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and

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. He also worked with the magazines ''Polis'' and ''Zone''.

Travel journalism

One of his topic of interest is the concept of "travel". He writes the

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''Atlante'' for the weekly magazine

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and was of the author of the

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's guides in Italian for Tuscany and also specifically for Florence (in 2014). He is the president of the ''Società Italiana Viaggiatori'' and the director of the Festival del Viaggio. In 2011 he published ''Honolulu baby'', a book of anecdotes and histories about the

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but also about the role of writing during travel. In 2018 he celebrated the 500th year from Leonardo Da Vinci's death with a trip from Vinci to

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, in France.

American culture

He wrote a biographical novel about

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, ''Benedetti da Parker'', and the essay ''Individualismo e Noir'' about U.S. cinema and specifically the economical and social roots of the noir genre and its relationship with the

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one.

Poetry

He has published in Spain his anthological poetry book titled ''En el rojo de Occidente''. In 2014 he became in charge of ''Poesia serie rossa'', the editorial collection about poetry of the ETS publisher, one of the few new ones started in Italy at the time. His poetries have been translated and published in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and United States. In 2019 he wrote the preface to the anthology ''Dix poètes italiens contemporains'' published in France by ''Le bousquet-la barthe''.

Works

Poetry

* ''Numeri e Parole'', 1997, Campanotto * ''Agosto e Temporali'', 2000, ETS * ''Il Cristo dei poeti'', 2010, ETS * ''En el rojo de Ocidente'', 2014, Olifante, * ''L’ospite perfetta. Sonetti italian'', 2020, Samuele Editore

Novels

* ''La vita secca'', 2002, Besa, * Alessandro Agostinelli, Athos Bigongiali, Sergio Costanzo,

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, Matteo Pelliti,

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, Luca Ricci, Alessandro Scarpellini, ''Sosteneva Tabucchi'', 2013, Felici Editore, * ''Benedetti da Parker'', 2017, Cairo Editore. * ''Racconti di Viaggio''

Essays

* ''Fosfori: 17 racconti di autori italiani contemporanei'', Marco Nardi, 1992, Florence, * Alessandro Agostinelli, Daniele Luti, ''Sera di Volterra. Viaggio nei luoghi e nelle storie di una città antica'', 2000, ETS, *''La società del giovanimento. Perché l'Occidente muore senza invecchiare'', 2004, Castelvecchi, *''Una filosofia del cinema americano - Individualismo e Noir'', 2004, ETS, *''Pisa & Livorno, istruzioni sulla guerra e sui campanili'', 2006, Zona * Alessandro Agostinelli, Tito Barbini, Paolo Ciampi, ''Parole in viaggio. Piccola guida di scrittura per viaggiatori veri e immaginari'', 2014, Romano Editore, *''Un mondo perfetto. Gli otto comandamenti dei fratelli Coen'', 2010, Editrice Besa Controluce, *''David Lynch e il Grande Fratello'', 2011, Besa, * Bernard Vanel (translator), Alessandro Agostinelli (preface), ''Dix poètes italiens contemporains. Dieci poeti italiani contemporanei'', 2018, lebousquet-la barthe,

Travel guides and travel literature

*''Honolulu baby. Avventure hawaiane di musica, surf, vulcani e chiari di luna'', 2011, Vallecchi, *''Firenze'', 2014, EDT, *''Da Vinci su tre ruote. In scooter alla scopeDa Vinci alla Francia in sella allo scooter: lo scrittore segue le orme di Leonardo rta del genio'', 2020, Exòrma.

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