Mario Reali (Mario Lucrezio Reali) (

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, 9 October 1939 – 7 December 2017) was an Italian poet and writer and a prominent expert in natural gas and

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. He received the highest Russian decoration of the

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: "Meritorious Worker of Gas Industry of

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", in 1999 and in 2005 from Gazprom.

Career

Reali graduated in Chemistry at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and at

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. He spent many years in the

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as a leading officer for Italian chemical groups Montedison (1967–1981) and Eni (1981–1991). In 1991–1993 Reali was head of the Italo-Russian Chamber of Commerce; subsequently, he returned to ENI as consultant for the

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area. In this position, Reali managed the construction of the

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pipeline of which he was one of the creators. Reali has been one of the key participants in the deal regarding energy supplies from Russia to Italy; he took part in the construction of the Russian pipelines towards Europe, in particular the

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. He began cooperating with

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in developing the Karachaganak and Kashagan oil and gas fields.

Poetry

He published three poem collections with Sandro Teti Editore: "Tramonto in Europa", (Sunset in Europe, 2006), winning the Santa Marinella award: "L'anima corrotta"(The Corrupted Soul, 2007), which obtained the 2008 international Agape prize for Poetry, and "L'uomo a quanti" (The Quantum Man, 2008), presented at the Turin International Book Fair. In 2011 Reali published in the United States "A Tired Angel. Selected Poems", edited by Paolo Lagazzi and Irene Marchegiani, with Gradiva Publications.

Critical response

Paolo Lagazzi, literary critic, wrote about Reali's sense of modern life, calling it "the whipping up

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of chaos". About ''L'anima corrotta'', Lagazzi wrote: "The voice of the poet points to the corruption of the soul as origin, before the modernity sin, but he reminds us that the amazement and the beauty will be able to opposite to it until the extreme". Introducing ''L'uomo a quanti'', Lagazzi observed "an energy that can overthrow the common categories of thought". The poet and literary critic Giancarlo BaroniGiancarlo Baroni (it)
identified the theme of the book with "moving forward the horizon, taking it as a movable frontier, not a barrier; the needs – that cannot be renounced – to look elsewhere, to avert being enmeshed and caged, limited and compressed; the need to avert surrender". When ''A Tired Angel'' was published in 2011, Lagazzi presented the book saying that "Mario Lucrezio Reali ..with his harsh and energetic wisdom has soon become one of the most gifted among the new Italian poets ..few contemporary authors know how to exploit so radically the ambiguity of language in order to dig into the old history of Western civilization".

Press review

*Carlo Boffitto, ''L'atteggiamento delle imprese italiane in Russia'' (The Behavior of Italian enterprises in Russia), Istituto Nazionale per il Commercio Estero (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, ICE), January 2001, page 12 *"Specchio", weekly magazine of the newspaper "La Stampa", 12 October 2005 *Bookshop Mondadori Venezia, presentation of ''Tramonto in Europa'', 14 aprile 2007 *''La via del gas'' (The Way of Gas), journalistic enquiry of the program "Report", Rai3, aired on 27 May 2007 *"Il Giornale", newspaper, 21 November 2006 *"Le Voci della Luna, Rivista Culturale" (The Voice of the Moon, Cultural Magazine), n.38, July 2007 *"Zapping",

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, poems aired on 2-11-18–26 March 2009 *"Poesia", Mensile Internazionale di Cultura Poetica (Poetry, Monthly Magazine of Poetic Culture), n.242, October 2009

Notes

References

*''Gosudarstvennij chelovek'', Moscow, 2005 *''Tramonto in Europa'', Sandro Teti Editore, Rome, 2006 – *''L'Anima Corrotta'', Sandro Teti Editore, Rome, 2007 – *''L'uomo a quanti'', Sandro Teti Editore, Rome, 2008 – *''A Tired Angel'', Gradiva Publications, New York, 2011

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reali, Mario 1939 births Italian poets Italian male poets Moscow State University alumni University of Bologna alumni Living people Italian expatriates in the Soviet Union