Franco Fortini

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Franco Fortini , actually Franco Lattes , (born September 10, 1917 in Florence , Kingdom of Italy , † November 28, 1994 in Milan ) was an Italian poet , author , translator and Marxist intellectual.

Life

Fortini was born Franco Lattes to a Jewish lawyer and a Catholic mother. He studied law and philosophy and in 1939 became a member of the Waldensian Protestant Church . In 1940 he took his mother's name to avoid hostility because of his Jewish descent. In 1941 he became an officer in the Italian army and fled to Switzerland in 1943 . In 1944 he joined the partisans in the northern Italian alpine valley of Val d'Ossola . In the same year he became a member of the Italian Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI).

After the end of the war, Fortini settled in Milan and worked there as a journalist and translator. He broke ties with the Socialist Party after the Soviet troops marched into Hungary during the Hungarian uprising in 1956. From 1964 to 1972, alongside his work as a poet and author, he worked at various high schools. Since 1976 he has been professor of literary criticism at the University of Siena . During these years he was one of the most important and influential representatives of the Italian New Left .

Works

  • Text on vocal music by Valentino Bucchi : Cori della pietà for mixed choir and orchestra, 1949–1950.
  • Dieci inverni (1947-1957). Contributi ad un discurso socialista . Feltrinelli, Miland 1957.
  • Poesia delle rose . Libreria Antquaria Palmaverde, Bologna 1962.
  • Italian and German: poetry. translated by Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • Sere in Valdossola . Mondadori, Milan 1963.
  • Verifica dei poteri. Scritti di critica e di istruzione letterarie . Il Saggiatore, Milan 1965.
  • Ventiquattro poetry 1961–1968 . SHE 1969.
  • Soggi italiani . De Donato, Bari 1974.
  • I poeti del Novecento . Laterza, Bari 1977.
  • Paesaggio con serpente. Versi 1978-1983 . Einaudi, Turin 1984.
  • Versi scelti 1939-989 . Einaudi, Turin 1990.
published posthumously
  • PV Mengaldo (Ed.): Poesia inedite . Einaudi, Turin 1995.
  • I cani del Sinai . Quodlibet, Macerata 2002.
  • Composita solvantur: The late poems. Translated from the Italian by Manfred Bauschulte. Lana, Ed. per procura, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901118-47-0 .
  • La guerra a Milano. Estate 1943 . Edizione critica e commento a cura di Alessandro La Monica, Pisa, Pacini Editore, 2017.
Translations
  • Bertolt Brecht : Mother Courage and her children = Madre Courage ei suoi figli , translated by Ruth Leiser and Franco Fortini. Einaudi, Turin 2000, ISBN 88-06-15613-6 .

literature

  • Eva-Maria Thüne: Poetry as a contradiction: On the development of poetological positions in Franco Fortini . Dissertation . Winter, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-533-04308-8 .
  • Robert Mintchev: Franco Fortini - Intellectual and Poet in Italy in the 20th Century . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-67772-1 . (Online resource)

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personal data
SURNAME Fortini, Franco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lattes, Franco (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet, author, translator and Marxist intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Kingdom of Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1994
Place of death Milan , Italy