Piero Bianconi

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Piero Bianconi (born June 1, 1899 in Minusio ; † June 5, 1984 ibid) was a Swiss writer , translator, lecturer and art historian.

Life

Piero Bianconi was born to Alessandro and Margherita Rusconi. His brother is the poet Giovanni Bianconi . From 1932 to 1934 he stayed in Florence and Rome , working on his doctoral thesis and listening to Pietro Toesca lecturing in art history . In Italy he made friends with writers, poets and critics. He stayed in Florence and Rome, where he visited the intellectuals who revolved around the frontispiece (Bargellini, Betocchi, Bo, Don De Luca) from whom he developed a taste for fragment and stylistically elegant prose. He completed his studies in Italian literature at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and received his doctorate in 1935. In Switzerland, he taught from 1935 to 1936 as a lecturer in Italian at the University of Bern . He then taught French and art history at the teachers' college in Locarno and at the Lyceum in Lugano .

Bianconi started with Ritagli , a collection of short texts that immediately reveal a strong taste for formal elegance and the hearty word. This was followed by Croci e rascane (crosses and rascane), a first important stage in the Bianconian prose: the interest in the humanity of the village is remarkable, as is the discovery of the baroque character of the canton of Ticino.

He translated u. a. Balzac , Baudelaire , Samuel Butler , Diderot , Flaubert , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz , Rousseau , Stendhal and Voltaire and non-fiction about Francesco Borromini , Hieronymus Bosch , Pieter Bruegel , Antonio da Correggio , Matthias Grünewald , Lorenzo Lotto , Piero della Francesca and Félix Vallotton .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ticino Arte. In: Enciclopedia italiana. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 1938, pp. 820–822.
  • Arte in Leventina. (with Arminio Janner), Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939.
  • Arte in Blenio. Guida della Valle. SA Grassi & Co., Bellinzona-Lugano 1944.
  • Bellinzona e le Valli superiori del Ticino. La Baconnière, Neuchâtel NE 1948.
  • Inventario delle cose d'Arte e di Antichità. I. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina. Blenio. Riviera. SA Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948.
  • Bartolomeo e Bernardino. In: Svizzera Italiana. No. 101, 1953, pp. 9-20.
  • Il polittico Torriani e la nostra «emigrazione» artistica. In: Svizzera Italiana , No. 103, 1953, pp. 1-13.
  • Sospetti bramantineschi. In: Svizzera Italiana. No. 104, 1954, pp. 12-14.
  • Bramantino. Publisher Fabbri, Milan 1965.
  • Francesco Borromini. Vita, Opere, Fortuna. Bellinzona 1967.
  • L'opera completa di Vermeer. Rizzoli, Milano 1967.
  • Tout l'oeuvre peint de Bruegel l'ancien. avec Charles De Tolnay, Flammarion, Paris 1968.
  • Albero genealogico. Cronache di emigranti. Edizioni Pantarei, Lugano 1969: The family tree. Chronicle of a family from Ticino. Translated by Hannelise Hinderberger, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Occhi sul Ticino. (with photo by Alberto Flammer), Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972.
  • L'opera completa di Grünewald. Rizzoli, Milano 1972.
  • Diario (1948-1949). In: Renato Martinoni, Sabina Geiser Foglia (eds.): Antologia di scritti. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 2001, pp. 319-324.
  • I ponti rotti di Locarno. Saggio sul Cinquecento. In: L'esilio dei protestanti locarnesi. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2005, pp. 227–258, ISBN 88-8281-170-0 .

bibliography

  • Mario Agliati : Per i settant'anni di Piero Bianconi (31 maggio 1969) , in: Il Cantonetto , XVI – XVII, 1–2, Lugano 1969, pp. 7–11.
  • Various authors: Per gli ottant'anni di Piero Bianconi , Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1979.
  • Giovanni Orelli : Svizzera italiana , Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986, pp. 157-161.
  • Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera: Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano , Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003.

literature

  • Renato Martinoni: Piero Bianconi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 11, 2004 , accessed January 25, 2020 .
  • Renato Martinoni: Piero Bianconi. In: Grenzfall Literatur, ed. by J. Bättig, S. Leimgruber, 1993, pp. 800-810.
  • Various authors: Per gli ottant'anni di Piero Bianconi. Pedrazzini, Locarno 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Bianconi, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Minusio , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1984
Place of death Minusio