Allessandro Parronchi (Florence, 26 December 1914 – Florence, 6 January 2007) was an Italian poet, art historian, and literary critic. He won the 1999
Mondello Prize
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History
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for literature.
Although much of his work has never been translated into English, in 1969 Grosset & Dunlap published a translation of his work on the sculpture of
Michelangelo. A translation and critical study of his publications has been performed by Angela Joan Bedford Mackie.
Biography
Parronchi was born to a middle-class Florentine family, with his father and grandfather being respected local figures. Interested in Classical literature from an early age, he began to think about the meaning of youth, as well as love and death, following the death of his father; these are themes that pervade his poetry.
In 1938 he graduated with a degree in art history, and begun working for Florentine magazines and newspapers. In this cultural atmosphere he associated with such poets and artists as
Umberto Bellintani,
Marco Lusini,
Bilenchi Romano,
Giorgio Caproni,
Charles Betocchi,
Alfonso Gatto
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Biography
Gatto stud ...
,
Fallacara,
Mario Luzi,
Piero Bigongiari, and
Ottone Rosai
Ottone Rosai (28 April 1895 – 13 May 1957) was an Italian painter born in Florence.
Biography
Rosai graduated from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, a period in which he was closely associated with the Lacerba group of Florentine Futur ...
.
In 1941 he published his first book of poems, ''I giorni sensibili'' (''Sensitive Dats''), which he followed with ''I visi'' (''Faces'') in 1943 and ''Un'attesa'' in 1949. He subsequently gained employment as a university professor of art history, focusing in the art of the
Renaissance
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.
On January 6, 2007, he died at his home of the Via Luigi Settembrini 21 in Florence, where he lived with his wife and daughter Nara.
Bibliography
Poetry
*''I giorni sensibili'',
Florence
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, 1941;
*''I visi'', Florence, 1943;
*''Un'attesa'',
Modena, 1949;
*''L'incertezza amorosa'',
Milan
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, 1952;
*''Per strade di bosco e città'', Florence, 1954;
*''Coraggio di vivere'', Milan, 1956;
* ''La noia della natura'',
Galatina
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, 1958;
* ''Coraggio di vivere'', Milan, 1961;
*''L'apparenza non inganna'', Milano, 1966;
*''Pietà dell'atmosfera'', Milan, 1970;
*''Replay'', Milan, 1980;
*''Climax'', Milan, 1990;
*''Per strade di bosco e di città'', Florence, 1994;
*''Poesie'', Florence, 2000.
Non-fiction studies
*''Studi su la dolce prospettiva'', Milan, 1964;
*''La nascita dell'Infinito (studi leopardiani)'';
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, 1989.
References
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Italian male poets
Italian literary critics
Italian art historians
Writers from Florence
1914 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Italian poets
20th-century Italian male writers
Italian male non-fiction writers