Giorgio Orelli

Giorgio Orelli (May 25, 1921 – November 10, 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.[1]

He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.

Giorgio Orelli was a post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation.[2] Called the Tuscan from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism".[3]

He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura). His cousin Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet.

Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier Michela Figini.

Poetic works

Poems translated in English

Proses

  • Un giorno della vita, Milan, Lerici, 1960.
  • Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.

Translations

Essays

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ "Ticinonline - L'addio a Giorgio Orelli: "Torneremo a incontrarlo con riconoscenza"". Tio.ch. 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  2. ↑ Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, Quarta generazione: la giovane poesia (1945-1954), Magenta, Varese, 1954
  3. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
  4. ↑ Verse Daily. "Giorgio Orelli, translated by Lynne Lawner". Verse Daily. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  5. ↑ Verse Daily. "Carnival at Prato". Verse Daily. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
  6. ↑ da samgha. "Earthly Wonders: the Poetry of Giorgio Orelli |". Samgharivista.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2013-11-18.

References

  • Andri Peer, Giorgio Orelli: An Italian Poet from Switzerland, Books Abroad, 1971, p. 247-251
  • John L. Flood, Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity, London, 1985
  • P.V. Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento, Mondadori, 2003
  • C. Mésoniat, Giorgio Orelli, poeta e critico, Casagrande, 1980
  • John Butcher and Mario Moroni (Ed.), From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies, Leicester, 2004
  • Luciano Anceschi, Linea lombarda, Magenta, Varese, 1952
  • Pietro De Marchi, Dove portano le parole. Sulla poesia di Giorgio Orelli e altro Novecento, Manni, Lecce, 2002
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