Maria Luisa Spaziani
Maria Luisa Spaziani (* around 1923 in Turin ; † June 30, 2014 in Rome ) was an Italian author , poet and translator .
life and work
Maria Luisa Spaziani was born into a wealthy industrial family and studied languages. While still a student, she published a literary newspaper entitled I Girasole , in which she published poems by Umberto Saba , Sandro Penna and Leonardo Sinisgalli , among others . In later years, Maria Luisa Spaziani was well networked with numerous intellectuals far beyond the borders of Italy. She knew poets and artists from Ezra Pound to Ingeborg Bachmann, from Jorge Luis Borges to Pablo Picasso .
In 1949 Maria Luisa Spaziani met Eugenio Montale . A close friendship developed. An exchange of several hundred letters proves this friendship and is archived in the University of Pavia . In 1981 Maria Luisa Spaziani became president of the then newly founded Eugenio Montale International Center, which also awards the Premio Montale.
The poet settled in Rome after extensive travels and stays in Milan and Paris. She began to publish her own works in 1954 and taught French language and literature at the University of Messina from 1964 . She published numerous volumes of poetry.
The type of poem Maria Luisa Spaziani is known for is two simple quatrains.
Her best-known books include La traversata dell'oasi , a volume of love poems from 2002, and Donne in Poesia , a volume in which she reproduces parapsychological interviews with great women poets of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publications
Poetry
- Primavera a Parigi , Milan, All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1954
- Le acque del sabato , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , 1954
- Luna lombarda , Venice, N. Pozza, 1959
- Il gong , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1962
- Utilità della memoria , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1966
- L'occhio del ciclone , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1970
- Ultrasuoni , Samedan, Munt press, 1976
- Transito con catene , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1977
- Poetry , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1979 - introduzione di Luigi Baldacci
- Geometria del disordine , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981 - Premio Viareggio
- La stella del libero arbitrio , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1986
- Giovanna D'Arco , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1990
- Torri di vedetta , Milan, Crocetti, 1992
- I fasti dell'ortica , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1996
- La radice del mare , Naples, Tullio Pironti editore, 1999
- La traversata dell'oasi , love poems 1998–2001, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2002
- La luna è già alta , Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2006
- L'incrocio delle mediane , Genoa, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2008
- L'opera poetica , Milan, Mondadori, 2012
prose
- Donne in poesia , fictional interviews with famous poets of the ninth and tenth centuries, Venice, Marsilio Editori, 1992
- La freccia , short stories, Venice, Marsilio, 2000
- Montale e la Volpe , autobiographical writings, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2011
Essays
- Marcel Proust e altri saggi di letteratura francese , 1959
- Il teatro francese del Seicento , 1960
- Ronsard fra gli astri della Pleiade , Turin, Eri , 1972
- Racine e il "Bajazet" , Rome, Lo faro, 1973
- Il teatro francese del Settecento , Rome, Lo faro, 1974
- Il teatro francese dell'Ottocento , Rome, Lo faro, 1975
- Il teatro francese del Novecento , Messina, EDAS, 1976
Plays
- La vedova Goldoni , 2000
- La ninfa e il suo re
- Teatro comico e no , Rome, Bulzoni, 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ Francesco Erbani: E 'morta la poetessa Maria Luisa Spaziani. La Repubblica , June 30, 2014, accessed October 3, 2018 (Italian).
- ^ Poesia Maria Luisa Spaziani. settemuse, accessed September 5, 2018 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spaziani, Maria Luisa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet, author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 2014 |
| Place of death | Rome |