Glauco Natoli
Glauco Natoli (born February 15, 1908 in Teramo , † November 26, 1964 in Florence ) was an Italian poet, Romanist , French writer and translator.
life and work
Natoli grew up in Messina and came into contact with the writers around Salvatore Quasimodo at an early age . He first studied law at La Sapienza University in Rome, then French literature with Pietro Paolo Trompeo and was friends with Enrico Falqui . In 1933 he went to the University of Strasbourg as a lecturer in Italian . In 1940 he married an Alsatian Jew, fled with her from Nazi Germany to Dinard and lived underground in Paris during the German occupation . From 1944 he taught at the University of Rennes , then at the Sorbonne. In 1950 he returned to Italy and taught at the University of Florence and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa until 1959 , before illness forced him to give up his work.
Natoli has translated works by Denis Diderot , James Joyce , Jean Giraudoux , Roger Peyrefitte and Jean-Louis Barrault into Italian.
Works
- Risveglio ed altri versi , Florence 1934 (seal)
- (Ed. With Albert Ricklin) Poètes italiens contemporains , Paris 1936, 1955
- Stendhal. Saggio biografico-critico , Bari 1936
- Poesia , Florence 1939 (poetry)
- Scrittori francesi. Situazioni ed aspetti , Florence 1950
- Figure e problemi della cultura francese , Messina and Florence 1956
literature
- Lionello Sozzi: NATOLI, Glauco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77: Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.
- Antonio La Penna, Glauco Natoli, in: Critica storica 4, 5, 1965, pp. 655-682
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Natoli, Glauco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet, Romanist, French writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teramo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1964 |
| Place of death | Florence |