Mario Agliati (29 January 1922 in

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– 15 October 2011 in Lugano) was a

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journalist, writer and historian. He contributed to the ''Gazzetta Ticinese'' and the

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and in 1953 founded a review entitled ''Il Cantonetto''

Works

* ''La sezione Baretti'', 1951 * ''La sposina del 1909'', 1959 * ''Lugano del buon tempo'', 1963 * ''L'erba voglio'', 1996 * ''Ottobre 1925: l'Europa a Locarno'', 1975 * ''I problemi del professor Pilati'', 1987 * ''La profezia del dottor Donzelli'', 1991 * ''Il tempietto di due Santi e di due città. Da Sant'Antonio da Padova in Lugano a San Lucio papa in Brugherio'', 1994 * ''Lugano: racconto di ieri e di oggi'', 1999

References

Bibliography (in Italian)

Giovanni Orelli Giovanni Orelli (30 October 1928, in Bedretto, Switzerland – 3 December 2016, in Lugano) was a Swiss poet and writer who worked in Italian and the Ticinese dialect. His cousin Giorgio Orelli was a poet and literary critic. Life He studied at the ...

, ''Svizzera Italiana'', Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986. * AA.VV., ''Dizionario delle letterature svizzere'', 1991, 12. * Luigi Menapace, ''Lo stile di Agliati'', in Il Cantonetto, 2, 1992, 42ss. * Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera, ''Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano'', Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, pp. 191 nota, 192 nota, 257 nota, 453. * Carlo Agliati (ed.), "Una presenza discosta. Testimonianze di amici in ricordo di Mario Agliati 1922–2011", in ''Il Cantonetto'', numero speciale, Lugano giugno 2012.

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