Patrizia Vicinelli (

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, 23 August 1943 – 9 January 1991) was an Italian poet, writer, artist and actress. Vincinelli was born in Bologna, where she grew up. She enrolled at the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

with the ambition to become a Literare Professor but never completed her studies. In the early 1960s, she started performing

sound poetry Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poetr ...

and

concrete poetry Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct mea ...

. In 1966, she attended a conference held in

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by the avant-garde literary group and was later invited to become a member. She contributed to literary magazines such as ''

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'', ''Doc(k)s'', ''Marcatré'', ''Ex'' and ''Quindici''. Her work in experimental theatre and contemporary music brought her to collaborate with poets and writers such as

Emilio Villa Emilio Villa (Milan, 21 September 1914 – Rieti, 14 January 2003) was an Italian poet, visual artist, translator, art critic and Bible scholar.p. ii, Siracusa, Dominic Edward. 2014. ''Emilio Villa: Poet of Biblical Proportions: A Dissertation and ...

, Adriano Spatola and Franco Beltrametti. She also performed in

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films such as ''In viaggio con Patrizia'' (1965) and ''Virulentia'' (1967) by Alberto Grifi; ''La Notte e il giorno'' by Gianni Castagnoli (1967); and ''

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'' by

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(1983). Vicinelli died in

in 1991.

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* ''à,a.A'', Lerici,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, 1967 * ''Ezio Gribaudo: Il peso del concreto'', Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo,

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, 1967 * ''Continuum: Foglio a redazione collettiva'', no. 4, Continuum,

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, 1970 * ''Signos Espacio Arte – exposicion internacional de la poesia concreta al arte conceptual'', Club Pueblo,

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, 1973 * ''Arti visive, poesia visiva'', Editrice Magma,

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, 1974 * ''Oggi Poesia Domani. Rassegna internazionale di poesia visuale e fonetica'', Fiuggi Editore,

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, 1979 * ''El Lissitzky: Due quadrati'', Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 * ''Apology of a Schizoid Woman'', Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 * ''Il colpo di glottide. La poesia come fisicità e materia'', Vallecchi Editore, Florence, 1980 * ''Mini 3'', Scorribanda Productions, Riva San Vitale,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, 1986 * ''Non sempre ricordano'', AElia Laelia, Bologna, 1986 * ''Scrittura visuale in Italia 1912-1972'', Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 1973 * ''

Nanni Balestrini Nanni Balestrini (2 July 1935 – 19 May 2019) was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement. Context Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers' movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for th ...

, Franco Vaccari, Patrizia Vicinelli: A Column, a Bar, a Voice'', Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Milan, 1994

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* 1943 births 1991 deaths Gruppo 63 Italian women poets Italian contemporary artists 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian actresses Writers from Bologna 20th-century Italian women writers {{Italy-writer-stub

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