Roberto Roversi (28 January 1923 – 14 September 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and journalist.

Biography

Born in

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, he participated as an adolescent to the

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. From 1948 to 2006 he managed the antiquarian bookshop Libreria Palmaverda in Bologna. In 1955, together with Francesco Leonetti and

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, he founded the magazine ''Officina''. In 1961 he started another literary magazine, ''Rendiconti''. In the same period, Roversi decided to stop selling his works to large publishers, and distributed them autonomously, often in amateur printing editions. In the early 1970s Roversi edited the far-left newspaper ''

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''. In 1973-1976, Roversi wrote lyrics for three albums by fellow Bolognese musician

Lucio Dalla Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and ...

: '' Il giorno aveva cinque teste'', '' Anidride solforosa'' and ''

Automobili ''Automobili'' is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, released in 1976 by RCA Italiana. It was the last work in collaboration with poet Roberto Roversi: the following LP, '' Com'è profondo il mare'', was entirely (not only the mu ...

'', the latter under the pseudonym Norisso. He also wrote lyrics for the Bolognese band Stadio, including " Chiedi chi erano i Beatles". His song "Anidride solforosa" was sung in the 1990s also by

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and Angela Baraldi. Roversi died in 2012 in Bologna.

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