Guido Calgari

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Guido Calgari (born December 13, 1905 in Biasca , † September 8, 1969 in Montecatini Terme ) was a Swiss politician, university professor and writer.

Life

Guido Calgari was the son of Cesare Calgari and his wife Emilia, b. Berla. He studied philosophy at the University of Bologna and completed it with a doctorate for which he received the literary prize Premio Vittorio Emanuele II . Subsequently, he became a teacher at the School of Lugano and later at the commercial college in Bellinzona . In 1940 he took over the management of the Ticino teachers' college in Locarno .

After the death of Giuseppe Zoppi in 1952, he was his successor at the chair for Italian literature at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich . In addition to his work as a teacher, he worked as a publicist and as a collaborator and chronicler for Radio Monteceneri.

Guido Calgari was with Carmen, geb. Tanzi, married.

Political activity

From the mid-1930s he appeared as a fighter against fascism and as a staunch defender of Swiss values . There were repeated disputes with the Lugano circle around Giovan Battista Angioletti , whose outstanding member was the charismatic Francesco Chiesa . Due to his talent as a polemicist and speaker, Guido Calgari became one of the nationally known leaders of the New Helvetic Society . In the political and social disputes of his time, in which he stood up against the foreign infiltration initiative and campaigned for seasonal workers, he was always in the forefront; he organized and animated various rallies and celebrations.

In the warlike climate of intellectual national defense , he worked closely with the Federal Council and published some writings that were not uncontested even then; he was also a contributor to the civil defense book .

Writing

With his prose collection Quando tutto va male , which he published in 1933, he told vividly about the difficult life of mountain farmers.

In order to counterbalance the Italian-friendly group of writers around Giovan Battista Antioletti , he founded the magazine Svizzera Italiana in 1941 together with Arminio Janner , which existed until 1962. After the controversy subsided in the 1950s and 1960s , he produced a large number of publications as a narrator, essayist and historian .

He also worked as a librettist and wrote the text of Casanova e l'Albertolli by Richard Flury , which was premiered in 1938 at the Fiera Svizzera di Lugano .

Memberships

In 1944 he founded the Swiss Writers' Association Associazione scrittori della Svizzera italiana (ASSI).

Fonts (selection)

  • Il sonno ei sogni: note di psicologia. Licinio Cappelli, Bologna 1928.
  • Rinascita culturale nella Svizzera italiana: scrittori ticinesi. Licinio Cappelli, Bologna 1929.
  • Le porte del mistero: canti di vita, di morte e d'amore. Grassi, Bellinzona 1929.
  • Scienza e filosofia nel futuro. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1932.
  • Quando tutto va male. Mazzuconi, Lugano 1933.
  • Nicolao della Flüe: due tempi per la Radioscuola ticinese. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1935.
  • with Adolphe Weitzel and Aldof Graf: L'insegnamento commerciale e l'educazione nazionale del giovane commerciante. Krebs, Basilea 1937.
  • L'educazione nazionale e l'insegnamento commerciale. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1938.
  • Guido Calgari; Hedwig Kehrli: Barren earth: short stories from the valleys of the Leventina. Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1940.
  • Racconti sgradevoli. Publisher: Il Ceppo-Istituto Editoriale Ticinese Grassi & Co., Bellinzona-Lugano 1957.
  • Storia delle quattro letterature della Svizzera. Nuova accademia, Milano 1958.
  • Culture italiana in Svizzera. Sansoni, Firenze 1959.
  • Ticino degli uomini. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1966.
  • The four literatures of Switzerland. Walter-Verlag, Olten 1966.
  • with Mario Agliati and Vincenzo Vicari: Storia della Svizzera. Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano 1969.

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SURNAME Calgari, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, university professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Biasca
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1969
Place of death Montecatini Terme