Roberto Roversi (28 January 1923 – 14 September 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and journalist.
Biography
Born in
Bologna
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, he participated as an adolescent to the
Italian resistance movement in
Piedmont
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. From 1948 to 2006 he managed the antiquarian bookshop Libreria Palmaverda in Bologna.
In 1955, together with
Francesco Leonetti
Francesco Leonetti (27 January 1924 – 17 December 2017) was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist.
Biography
Leonetti was born in Cosenza in Calabria. In 1955 he moved to Bologna to study philosophy. There he me ...
and
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
, 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 ''
Lotta Continua''. 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'', the latter under the pseudonym Norisso. He also wrote lyrics for the Bolognese band
Stadio
Stadio (literally, ''Stadium'') is an Italian pop rock band formed in 1977. The members are Giovanni Pezzoli (drums), Roberto Drovandi (bass guitar), Andrea Fornili (guitar), and Gaetano Curreri (vocals and keyboard).
Formation and early rec ...
, including "
Chiedi chi erano i Beatles". His song "Anidride solforosa" was sung in the 1990s also by
Francesco De Gregori and
Angela Baraldi.
Roversi died in 2012 in Bologna.
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1923 births
2012 deaths
Writers from Bologna
Italian male journalists
Italian male poets
Italian librarians
Italian resistance movement members
20th-century Italian poets
Italian magazine editors
Italian magazine founders
Italian lyricists
20th-century Italian male writers
Businesspeople from Bologna