Luciano Erba

Luciano Erba (born September 18, 1922 in Milan , † August 3, 2010 ibid) was an Italian poet , French writer and translator.

life and work

Erba studied at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 1943 he went to Switzerland and in 1947 to Paris. In 1950 he returned to Milan and was a lecturer in French literature at the Catholic University from 1955 to 1963. From 1963 to 1966 he stayed in the United States. He then taught at various Italian universities, most recently from 1985 to 1997 as a full professor at the Catholic University. Starting in 1951, Erba published numerous volumes of poetry. T have been translated into multiple languages. He has received several poetry awards, including the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

Fonts

Romance Studies

• (Ed. With Piero Chiara ) Quarta generazione. La giovane poesia (1945–1954) , Varese 1954, 2014
• L'Incidenza della magia nell'opera di Cyrano de Bergerac , Milan 1959
• (Ed.) Cyrano de Bergerac, Lettres , Milan 1965, 1975
  • (Ed.) Cyrano de Bergerac, Œuvres complètes 2. Lettres. Entretiens pointus , Paris 2001
• Magia e invenzione. Note e ricerche su Cyrano de Bergerac e altri autori del primo Seicento francese , Milan 1967, 2000
• Huysmans e la liturgia e alcune note di letteratura francese contemporanea , Bari 1971

Own poetry (selection)

• Lo svagato. Poems = The dreamy . Translated from the Italian by Gio Batta Bucciol, Tübingen 1986
• In the Middle Country and other poems = Nella terra di mezzo ed altre poesie . Translated and edited. by Gio Batta Bucciol and Karl Heinz Fingerhut, Tübingen 2002
• Si passano le stagioni. Una scelta personale di autografi e inediti , Novara 2002
• Poetry 1951-2001 , ed. by Stefano Prandi, Milan 2002
• Poetry e immagini , Milan 2007
• I miei poeti tradotti. Testi originali e traduzioni , ed. by Franco Buffoni, Novara 2014 ( Blaise Cendrars , Paul Claudel , Jean de Sponde , André Frénaud , Théophile Gautier , Thom Gunn , Victor Hugo , Max Jacob , Antonio Machado , Henri Michaux , Pablo Neruda , Francis Ponge , Jean Racine , Pierre Reverdy , Georges Rodenbach , Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661), May Swenson (1913–1989) and François Villon )

literature

• 80 poeti contemporanei. Omaggio a Luciano Erba per i suoi 80 anni , ed. by Silvio Ramat, Novara 2003 (greeting from Philippe Jaccottet )
• Franco Pappalardo La Rosa, Il filo e il labirinto. Gatto. Caproni. Erba , Turin 1997
  • Franco Pappalardo La Rosa, Il poeta nel labirinto. Luciano Erba , Alessandria 2006
• Vittorio Bodini and Luciano Erba, Carteggio (1953-1970) , ed. by Maria Ginevra Barone, Nardò 2007
• Gli anni di Quarta generazione. Esperienze vitali della poesia. Carteggi tra Luciano Anceschi, Piero Chiara e Luciano Erba , ed. by Serena Contini, Varese 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Luciano Erba in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luciano-erba_(Enciclopedia_Italiana)/ (Lexicon article by Roberto Deidier [* 1965], Italian, 2000)
• http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luciano-erba/ (Lexicon article, Italian)
• http://www.letteratura.it/lucianoerba/luciano_erba_bibliografia.htm (directory of poetry publications)