Emilio Cecchi

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Emilio Cecchi (born July 14, 1884 in Florence , † September 8, 1966 in Rome ) was an Italian writer , literary critic , art critic , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Emilio Cecchi studied in Florence. He was very active as a journalist and wrote as an art critic for the magazine La Voce . In 1910 he went to Rome and in 1919 co-founded the magazine Ronda as a literary critic . He wrote for Marzocco , Dedalo , L'Esame , Leonardo and L'Italia Letteraria . Cecchi wrote several books on Italian art history and English literature. As a man of letters, Cecchi wrote in an essayistic style that is difficult to classify and is somewhere between essay and travelogue. He also produced three films and wrote the screenplay for eleven films. From 1941 he took part in the “ European Poets' Meetings ” organized by the Nazi German cultural propaganda in Weimar . In 1952 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

His daughter was the Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico (1914-2010).

Works

Literary criticism

  • La poesia di Giovanni Pascoli , 1912
  • Storia della letteratura inglese del secolo XIX , 1915
  • Scrittori inglesi e americani , 1937
  • I grandi romantici inglesi , 1957

Art criticism

  • Pittura italiana dell'Ottocento , 1926
  • Trecentisti senesi , 1928
  • Pietro Lorenzetti , 1930
  • Note alla II Quadrennial , 1935
  • Giotto , 1937
  • Donatello , 1942
  • Scultura fiorentina del Quattrocento , 1956

Literary works

  • Pesci rossi , 1920
  • Amando Spadini , Milan 1927
  • Corse al trotto , Florence 1936
  • L'Osteria del cattivo tempo , Milan 1942
  • America Amara , 1940 (German Bitter America, Berlin 1942, translated by A. Graf Alegiani ), Gerhard Stalling Verlagbuchhandlung , Oldenburg 1942, p. 394, 24 b / w photos
  • Messico , 1941
  • Qualche cosa , Florence 1943
  • Saggi e vagabondaggi , Milan 1962
  • Et in Arcadia ego (German Arcadia. Experienced Greece, Hamburg 1949)
  • Goldfish. A selection of stories and essays from the complete works. German Zurich 1973
  • Cat eyes. Portrait of a monkey. German Zerkall, 1975

script

  • 1932: La Tavola dei poveri - Director: Alessandro Blasetti
  • 1933: Acciaio - Director: Walter Ruttmann
  • 1934: 1860 - Director: Alessandro Blasetti
  • 1941: Little Old World ( Piccolo mondo antico ) - Director: Mario Soldati
  • 1942: Sissignora - Director: Fernando Maria Poggioli
  • 1942: Tragica notte - Director: Mario Soldati
  • 1943: Giacomo l'idealista - Director: Alberto Lattuada
  • 1943: Knock-Out ( Harlem ) - Director: Carmine Gallone
  • 1946: My son the professor ( Mio figlio professore ) - Director: Renato Castellani
  • 1947: Under the Sun of Rome (Sotto il sole di Roma) - Director: Renato Castellani
  • 1949: Fabiola - Director: Alessandro Blasetti

production

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personal data
SURNAME Cecchi, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, art critic, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1966
Place of death Rome