Giovanni Bertacchi (

Chiavenna Chiavenna ( lmo, Ciavèna ; la, Clavenna; rm, Clavenna or ''Claven''; archaic german: Cläven or ''Kleven'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. It is the centre of the Alpine ...

, 9 February 1869 -

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, 24 November 1942) was a

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and

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Biography

His poetry was heavily influenced by

Giovanni Pascoli Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the great ...

, both in terms of the search for metric forms and the characteristic taste for landscape descriptions. He was a

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at the

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from 1916 to 1938 when he voluntarily left the teaching position against fascism. He was the author of critical studies on Dante,

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, Manzoni,

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. His first and perhaps most important poetic work is the ''Canzoniere delle Alpi'', published in 1895. About 60 years, in conjunction with the release of his latest collection ''Il perenne domani'' (The Perennial Tomorrow). These were pervaded by the nostalgia for childhood and for its places of origin. He was buried in the cemetery of Chiavenna, a sarcophagus created by Enrico Pancera.

Main works

Critical studies

* ''Ore dantesche'' (1914) * ''Leopardi un maestro di vita'' (1917) - Leopards a Master of Life * ''Il primo romanticismo lombardo'' (1920) - The first Lombard romance * ''Il pensiero critico e le tragedie di A. Manzoni'' (1936) - The critical thought and tragedies of A. Manzoni

Verse stories

* ''Il canzoniere delle Alpi'', Milano, Chiesa e Guindani (1895) - The songwriter of the Alps , Milan, Church and Guindani * ''Poemetti lirici'', Milano, Sonzogno (1898) - Poetry lyric , Milan, Sonzogno * ''Le malie del passato'', Milano, Libreria editrice lombarda, (1905) - The Mountains of the Past , Milan, Lombard Publishing House * ''Alle sorgenti'', Milano, Baldini e Castoldi, (1906) - At the sources , Milan, Baldini & Castoldi * ''A fior di silenzio'', Milano, Baldini e Castoldi (1912) - A silent flower , Milan, Baldini and Castoldi * ''Riflessi di orizzonti'', Milano, Baldini e Castoldi, (1921) - Reflections of horizons , Milan, Baldini and Castoldi * ''Il perenne domani'', Milano, Baldini e Castoldi, (1929) -

Other works

* ''Suona la sveglia'' (1921), inno ufficiale del Corpo nazionale giovani esploratori ed esploratrici italiani * ''Marmi, vessilli ed eroi'' (orazioni, commemorazioni, ecc.), Milano, Baldini e Castoldi (1912) * ''Voci dal mondo: antologia della lingua italiana,'' Torino, Paravia, 1926.

Notes

* ''Mario Borsa, Giovanni Bertacchi negli anni della sua giovinezza, Varese, 1943.'' * ''Luigi Medici, Giovanni Bertacchi, maestro di bontà, Milano, Baldini e Castoldi, 1946.'' * ''Arturo Graf, Anime di poeti, in «Nuova Antologia», Torino, 1º aprile 1904.'' * ''Emilio Cecchi, Studi critici, Ancona, 1912.'' * ''Giovanni Papini, Testimonianze, Firenze, Vallecchi, 1924, pp. 55–70.'' * ''Alfredo Galletti, Il Novecento, Milano, Vallardi, 1939, pp. 256–260.'' * ''Francesco Flora, I nostri morti, in «Corriere d'informazione», Milano, 20 novembre 1945.'' * ''Enrico Maria Fusco, La lirica, Milano, Vallardi, 1950, volume 2°, pp. 297–300.'' * ''Ettore Mazzoli, Giovanni Bertacchi, in Letteratura italiana - I Minori, volume 4°, Milano, Marzorati, 1962, pp. 3427–3439'' * ''Luisa Mangoni, Giovanni Bertacchi, « Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani », vol. 9, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, 1967'' * ''Dizionario della letteratura italiana a cura di Ettore Bonora, Milano, Rizzoli,I, 1977''

References

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