Renato Fondi (1887–1929) was a poet, writer and music critic. Fondi was born in Pistoia. He was active in the city until the years of the First World War, and was President of the choral society Theodule Mabellini. He contributed to the emergence of

Giovanni Michelucci Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, urban planner and designer, was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, on 2 January 1891 and died on the night of 31 December 1990, two days before his 100th birthday, at his studio-home in Fiesole, in Florence's hills ...

, brilliant architect and urban planner, and the whimsical Marino Marini. He founded the magazines ''Athena'' and ''La Tempra'' to which they collaborated some of the most influential writers and musicians of the time:

Giovanni Papini Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and ...

, Dino Campana,

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic, Germanist, poet, playwright and academic naturalized American. Biography During the academic year 1899-1900, under pressure from ...

Ildebrando Pizzetti Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, musicologist, and music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino ...

and the Armenian poet Hrand Nazariantz. His works include three important essays on the epigrammatist Nicolas Chamfort, on Giovanni Papini and on Ildebrando Pizzetti. Fondi wrote a monograph, in 1927, about Alfredo Catalani, a composer from Lucca. Catalani, who died in 1893, had not previously been studied. Fondi himself died in

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of the same disease as Catalani, tuberculosis.

Published works

* ''Musa vernacola'' (1907) * ''Il sudario'' (1910) * ''Ozi vesperali'' (1912) * ''Chamfort'' (1916) * ''Ildebrando Pizzetti e il dramma musicale italiano d'oggi'' (1919) * ''Fiordelmondo'' (1919) * ''Opuscoli filosofici'' (1919) * ''Un costruttore: Giovanni Papini'' (1922)

References

Ildebrando Pizzetti and the italian musical dramaA builder: Giovanni Papini
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