Mario Luzi

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Mario Luzi (born October 20, 1914 in Castello near Florence , † February 28, 2005 in Florence) was an Italian poet and essayist . Luzi studied French literature and initially worked as a high school teacher and from 1955 as a professor of Romance literature and comparative literature

Life

As a student he found access to the circle of hermeticists , whose best-known representatives are Eugenio Montale , Giuseppe Ungaretti and Salvatore Quasimodo . Among the intellectuals in Florence, the "ermetismo" was by no means the standpoint of a minority, but rather the literary attitude of a self-contained community that prevailed at the time. Stylistically and thematically, they sought the distance to the propaganda of the fascists . In a kind of inner exile, questions about human life should be asked and answered free of the political zeitgeist. The secret of life was sought - the “verità del mondo”. The language in the service of dictatorship, for example futurism , in which violence and the motive of technical speed were glorified, was contrasted by "ermetismo" with an ostensibly dark and closed - that is, hermetic - language. Mario Luzi had little contact with Eugenio Montale, who lived in Florence from 1927 to 1938, but maintained an intensive exchange with Piero Bigongiari , Oreste Macrì , Carlo Bo and Leone Traverso . In 1935 he published his first volume of poetry «La barca». In contrast to his more secularized companions, Mario Luzi found himself in what he described as a painful inner conflict with Catholicism , from which he was alienated, but which continued to have a decisive influence on his thinking and writing. He finished his studies in 1936 with a thesis on François Mauriac , the ideologically close main representative of the Renouveau catholique . Luzi maintained this mental attitude in the main until the end of his life. He became known to the German-speaking reading public mainly through the volume of poems "Wein und Ocker".

He is the recipient of the Premio internazionale di poesia ›Gabriele d'Annunzio‹ . In 1987 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . In 2004 Luzi was appointed Senator for life by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi .

Works

  • Tutte le poesie. 2 volumes. Milan 1979.
    • Volume 1: Il giusto della vita.
    • Volume 2: Nell'opera del mondo.
  • La cordigliera delle Ande e altri versi tradotti. Turin 1983.
  • Discorso naturale. Milan 1984.
  • Tutte le poesie. Milan 1988.
  • Scritti. Edited by Giancarlo Quirinconi. Venice 1989.
  • Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare. Milan 1990.
  • L'alta, la cupa fiamma. Poetry 1935–1984. Edited by Maurizio Cucchi and Giovanni Raboni. Milan 1990.

Translations:

  • Poems / poetry. Selected and translated by Gio Batta Bucciol and Irmgard B. Perfahl. Narr, Tübingen 1989.
  • Wine and ocher. Poems in Italian and German . Selection, translation and epilogue by Hanno Helbling. Klett-Cotta Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-95881-9 .

literature

  • Mario Luzi: The color of poetry. Conversation with Wulf Kirsten. Zeitschrift Sinn und Form, Issue 1, 1994 Aufbau-Verlag Berlin (also: Rütten & Loening).
  • Michael Krüger (Ed.): Akzente. Journal for Literature, Issue September 5, 1988: Mario Luzi and Giorgio Caproni: Italian Poetry . Hanser.
  • 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. 179-195.
  • Guido Schmidlin: Why poets? About Mario Luzi. In: Accents. Journal of Literature. Issue 4, 2007.
  • Cronologia della vita e delle opere di Mario Luzi. (Chronicle of the Life and Works of ML) (Italian). In: Mario Luzi: Libro di Ipazia . Drama, Milano: Ed. Rizzoli, 2nd edition 1980 (French: Livre d'Hypatie Théâtre. Traduit et préfacé par Bernard Simeone ISBN 2-86432-197-1 . On the French publisher 's pages : Résumé, Extrait du texte, Extraits de presse editions-verdier. fr )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Stauder: Restless Religiosity - For the 100th birthday of the Italian poet Mario Luzi . In: NZZ . October 20, 2014, p. 34 .
personal data
SURNAME Luzi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Castello near Florence
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2005
Place of death Florence