Premio Marzotto
The Premio Marzotto (Marzotto Prize) was a prize initiated from 1951 to 1968 by the Italian industrial family Marzotto from Valdagno in the province of Vicenza . The initiator, the textile entrepreneur Gaetano Marzotto , set up a jury that annually selected winners in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, economics, journalism, medicine and surgery, music, theater, painting, etc. The jury included personalities such as Mario Missiroli , Giovanni Ansaldo, Giuseppe Toffanin , Antonio Pagliaro and, as secretary, Edoardo Soprano. In later years, the jury also included Emilio Cecchi .
The Premio Marzotto had a certain importance - also internationally - because the selection of the award winners was very courageous in some cases and honored both established names and young talents of the Italian and international generation of the post-war period. In 1968, during the student revolt, the award was discontinued.
Award winners
The winners in the various categories included:
- art
- Renato Guttuso
- Alberto Burri
- Filippo de Pisis
- Carlo Carrà
- Enrico Accatino
- Leonardo Cremonini
- Amadeo Scordia
- Silvio Loffredo
- Antonio Bueno
- Giuseppe de Gregorio
- Orazio Celeghin
- Pitt Moog
- Luigi Romers , 1955
- Emil Kiess , 1958
- Marie Raymond , 1960
- Lucio Fontana , 1962
- RB Kitaj , 1962
- Karl Otto Götz , 1962
- Heinz Mack , 1963
- Anton Heyboer , 1965
- Paul Wunderlich , 1967
- literature
- Amedeo Maiuri , 1951
- Giovanni Papini , 1952
- Corrado Govoni , 1953
- Aldo Palazzeschi , 1953
- Alberto Moravia , 1954
- Ardengo Soffici , 1955
- Bruno Cicognani , 1956
- Eugenio Montale , 1956
- Mario Luzi , 1957
- Umberto Saba , 1957
- Riccardo Bacchelli , 1959
- Vasco Pratolini , 1963
- Ignazio Silone , 1965
- theatre
- Natalia Ginzburg , 1968
- Literary history and criticism
- philosophy
- history
- Gioacchino Volpe , 1952
- music
- Henk Badings , 1954
- Rolf Riehm , 1968
literature
- Piero Bairati: Sul filo di lana. Cinque generazioni di imprenditori: i Marzotto , Il Mulino, Bologna 1986