Massimiliano Chiamenti (

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, 1967 -

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, 2011) was an

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and

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who lived in

, and taught at the "'' Liceo delle Scienze Sociali

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and the "Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da vinci"''". From 1993, he published a number of collections of

poems Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...

: ''Telescream'' (Cultura Duemila, 1993), ''User-friendly'' (David Seagull productions, 1994), ''x/7'' (Dadamedia, 1995), ''p't (post)'' (Gazebo, 1997), ''Schedule'' (

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Italia, 1998), ''Maximilien'' (

Italia, 1999), ''e'' (

self-publishing Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using POD (pr ...

, 2000), ''songs of being and not being here'' (

, 2001), ''30 slide poems'' (

, 2002), ''rhythms 2003'' (

, 2003), ''le teknostorie'' (Edizioni Segreti di Pulcinella, 2003, Zona, 2005), ''free love'' (Giraldi, 2007), ''adel & c.'' (Fermenti, 2008), ''paperback writer'' (Gattogrigio Editore, 2009) ''evvivalamorte'' (Le Càriti, 2011), and the collection of short stories ''Scherzi?'' (Giraldi, 2009). His

are written as

free verse Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French ''vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Definit ...

, and their main themes are same sex

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, contemporary forms of neo- barbarism, and social marginality. In 1995 he received the poetry prize "Città di

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" from

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. Some of his poems appeared in the journals "

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", "Argo", " Forum Italicum", "

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", " Idioteca", " Italian Poetry Review", " mumble:" and " Semicerchio". He was active as a translator into Italian, translating poems by

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and

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for

. As a

, he made contributions in the fields of

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and Italian philology, mainly on texts by

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (, ; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of ...

and

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. His many scholarly works include the book ''Dante Alighieri traduttore'' (

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, 1995), where

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, French, and Provençal sources are investigated, and articles on

's character Jacopo Rusticucci (" Lingua Nostra", 1997), and the attribution to

of the

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poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

"Ai faus ris" (" Dante Studies", 1998, " L'Alighieri", 2009). He collaborated with the on-line Early Italian Vocabulary for the

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. Chiamenti provided the critical editions of

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's ''Comentum'' on

The Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and ...

(

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, 2002) and of the

Chansons A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic so ...

of the French

trouvère ''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French (''langue d'oïl'') form of the ''langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet- ...

Colin Muset Colin Muset (''fl''. ''c''. 1210–50 or 1230–70) was an Old French trouvère and a native of Lorraine. He made his living in the Champagne by travelling from castle to castle singing songs of his own composition and playing the vielle. T ...

(Carocci, 2005). From 1990 he was active as a reader/

performer The performing arts are The arts, arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art object ...

of his

, often accompanied by musicians. He committed suicide in his house in Bologna at the age of 43.

References

External links

His works

A poem of his, with music
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiamenti, Massimiliano Italian male poets Italian philologists 1967 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian male writers 2011 suicides Suicides in Italy