Giovanni Giudici (writer)

Giovanni Giudici 1992

Giovanni Giudici (born June 26, 1924 in Le Grazie ; † May 24, 2011 in La Spezia ) was an Italian writer, poet and translator. Giudici studied classical philology in Rome . Initially working as a journalist since 1948 , he worked for an American cultural office from 1949 to 1956. Later he moved to the advertising and press department of the Olivetti company . After 1980 Giudici worked as an editor for the magazine L'Espresso and the daily newspapers Corriere della Sera and l'Unità . As an author , Giudici published his own prose and essay works as well as translations from English and Russian - such as his version of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin - as well as transcriptions of works by Ezra Pound and Sylvia Plath .

Giovanni Giudici was married to Marina Bernardi. The marriage had two children.

Works (selection)

Alexander Pushkin : Eugenio Onegin . Vers translation 1976. New edition with e. Preface by G. Folena. Milan: Rizzoli 1983.
Addio, proibito piangere e altri versi tradotti . (1955-1980). Torino, Einaudi, 1982.
A una casa non sua . Nuovi versi tradotti (1955-1995). Milano, Mondadori 1997

Poems by John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ezra Pound, George Eliot, Richard Wilbur, Sylvia Plath and others. a.

Manfred Lentzen: Italian poetry of the 20th century. From the avant-garde of the first decades to a new inwardness. Analecta Romanica series, issue 53. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-465-02654-3 , pp. 336-342.