The most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death in 1985, whose best known works are the Our Ancestors trilogy and the Cosmicomics collection of short stories?
"Cosmicomics Cosmicomics () is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals ""Il Caffè"" and ""Il Giorno"". Each story takes a scientific ""fact"" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. An always-extant being called Qfwfq narrates all of the stories save two, each of which is a memory of an event in the history of the universe. Qfwfq also narrates some stories in Calvino's ""t zero"". All of"
"""Gruppo 63"" (Group 63). ""Centuria"", which won the Viareggio Prize is probably his most approachable; it was translated into English in 2005 by Henry Martin. ""Agli dei ulteriori"" comprises a linked collection of short pieces including an exchange of letters between Hamlet and the Princess of Cleves and concludes with a fake learned article on the language of the dead. He died in Rome in 1990. He was an atheist. Italo Calvino called him ' a writer unlike any other, an inexhaustible and irresistible inventor in the game of language and ideas'. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH CRITICAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH Giorgio"
"Luciano Bianciardi Luciano Bianciardi (; 14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels. He contributed significantly to the cultural ferment in post-war Italy, working actively with various publishing houses, magazines and newspapers. His work is characterized by periods of rebellion against the cultural establishment, to which he also belonged, and by a careful analysis of social habits during Italian economic miracle. He was the first Italian translator of Henry Miller's ""Tropic of Cancer"" and ""Tropic of Capricorn"", Saul Bellow's ""Henderson the Rain King"", John Steinbeck's ""The Winter of Our"
"Emilio Villa Emilio Villa (Milan, 21 September 1914 – Rieti, 14 January 2003) was an Italian poet, visual artist, translator, art critic and Bible scholar. His poems reflected his knowledge of modern and ancient languages, including Italian, French, English, Latin, Greek, Sumerian, and Akkadian. Most of Villa's writing were printed by small publishing houses throughout Italy, and many are unavailable today. He translated the Babylonian creation epic, ""Enuma Elis"", Homer's ""Odyssey"", and several books of the Hebrew Scriptures, including the first five books of Moses (Pentateuch), Job, Proverbs, and Song of Songs. In 1950, Villa moved to Brazil, where he"
"""Non è terrestre"" (""Not of this World""). His books were translated in 60 countries, including Russia, Japan and China. Kolosimo also founded and coordinated the Italian Association for Prehistoric Studies (ASP). He died in Milan in 1984. Kolosimo's claims about ancient astronauts influencing human civilizations are considered to be pseudohistory. In a critical three part review for Kolosimo's ""Not of This World"", Jason Colavito has noted that the book fabricated evidence, mistranslated sources and conflated science fiction and fact. In the book Kolosimo had claimed that some of H. P. Lovecraft's fictional ideas were factual. According to Colavito ""the book,"
"Aldo Busi Aldo Busi (born 25 February 1948) is a contemporary Italian writer and translator, famous for his linguistic invention and for his polemic force as well as for some prestigious translations from English, German and ancient Italian that include Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Lewis Carroll, Christina Stead, Giovanni Boccaccio, Baldesar Castiglione, Friedrich Schiller, Joe Ackerley, John Ashbery, Heimito von Doderer, Ruzante, Meg Wolitzer, Paul Bailey, Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was born in Montichiari, near Brescia in Lombardy. Third son of Marcello Busi (1913 – 1982) and Maria Bonora (1914 – 2008) he is raised in poverty conditions with his father, mother"
"new title where applicable. Felice Romani Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito. Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa, he studied law and literature in Pisa and Genoa. At the University of Genoa he translated French literature and, with a colleague, prepared a six-volume dictionary of mythology and antiquities, including the history of the Celts in Italy. Romani's expertise in French and antiquity is"
"Valerio Evangelisti Valerio Evangelisti (born June 20, 1952) is an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquistor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy, all bestsellers translated into many languages. Some of his books are seen as part of the body of literary works known as the New Italian Epic. Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna, where he currently lives; he spends some time each year in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, where he"
"Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo Svevo's firm). The poet's niece, Bianca Montale, in her ""Cronaca famigliare"" (""Family Chronicle"") of 1986 portrays the family's common characteristics as ""nervous fragility, shyness, concision in speaking, a tendency to see the worst in every event, a certain sense of humour"". Montale was"
"Pirandello's poetry was translated for the first time in 2016 by George Hochfield. Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for ""his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."" Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Pirandello was born into an"
"Peter Kolosimo Peter Kolosimo, pseudonym of Pier Domenico Colosimo (15 December 1922 – 23 March 1984), was an Italian journalist and writer. He is ranked amongst the founders of pseudoarchaeology (in Italian: ""fantarcheologia""), a controversial topic which aims to study the origins of ancient civilizations using theories and methods not accepted by the scientific community. He also popularised ancient astronaut theories of contact between extraterrestrial beings and ancient human civilizations. Of Italian-American origins, he was born in Modena, and lived in Bolzano, Turin and Milan. In 1969 he won the Premio Bancarella, one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, for"
"Franco Cuomo Franco Cuomo (22 April 1938 in Naples – 23 July 2007 in Rome) was an Italian journalist and writer. Best known for his historical novels set in the Middle Ages, he was short-listed twice for the Strega Award (the most prestigious literary prize in Italy), first with ""Gunther d'Amalfi, cavaliere templare"" (Gunter D’Amalfi, Knight Templar) in 1990 and then ""Il Codice Macbeth"" in 1997. Cuomo gained a degree in law and then simultaneously worked in journalism and the theatre, moving on to fiction and historical studies. His most recent works included the novels ""I sotterranei del cielo"", ""Il"
"poet Annalisa Cima; the critic Dante Isella thinks that this work is not authentic. Joseph Brodsky dedicated his essay ""In the Shadow of Dante"" to Eugenio Montale's lyric poetry. Each year links to its corresponding ""[year] in literature"" or ""[year] in poetry"" article: Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo"
"century, at present only nine titles are available in English. The last three tiles were published posthumously. Excerpts from 15 of Salgari's titles were collected in ""Storie Rosse"" in 1910. Each excerpt is introduced by a brief synopsis of the novel it was drawn from. Emilio Salgari Emilio Salgari ( ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante. Today he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of"
"Felice Romani Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito. Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa, he studied law and literature in Pisa and Genoa. At the University of Genoa he translated French literature and, with a colleague, prepared a six-volume dictionary of mythology and antiquities, including the history of the Celts in Italy. Romani's expertise in French and antiquity is reflected in the libretti"
"works are highly regarded in France but little known in English. Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati-Traverso (; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for ""Corriere della Sera"". His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel ""The Tartar Steppe"", and he is also known for his well received collections of short stories. Buzzati was born at San Pellegrino, Belluno, in his family's ancestral villa. Buzzati's mother, a veterinarian by profession, was Venetian and his father, a professor of international law, was from an old Bellunese"
"Italo Svevo Aron Ettore Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic Modernist novel ""La Coscienza di Zeno"" (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement. Born in Trieste (then in Austrian Empire, after 1867 Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish German father and an Italian mother, Svevo was one"
"of the Museum of Natural History erected in his honour. The following are named after him: Italo Svevo Aron Ettore Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic Modernist novel ""La Coscienza di Zeno"" (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement. Born in Trieste (then in Austrian Empire, after 1867 Austria-Hungary)"
"Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story author. Best known for his ""trilogy on modernity and its discontents"" — ""L'Avventura"" (1960), ""La Notte"" (1961), and ""L'Eclisse"" (1962), as well as the English-language ""Blowup"" (1966)—Antonioni ""redefined the concept of narrative cinema"" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced ""enigmatic and intricate mood pieces"" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. Antonioni received numerous awards and"
"Alessandro Parronchi Allessandro Parronchi (Florence, 26 December 1914 – Florence, 6 January 2007) was an Italian poet, art historian, and literary critic. He won the 1999 Mondello Prize for literature. Although much of his work has never been translated into English, in 1969 Grosset & Dunlap published a translation of his work on the sculpture of Michelangelo. A translation and critical study of his publications has been performed by Angela Joan Bedford Mackie. Parronchi was born to a middle-class Florentine family, with his father and grandfather being respected local figures. Interested in Classical literature from an early age, he began"
"popular author. He was proficient in the arts, his parents having had him trained by various masters, and he was a musician, painter, poet and author at the same time. Alphonsus wrote 111 works on spirituality and theology. The 21,500 editions and the translations into 72 languages that his works have undergone attest to the fact that he is one of the most widely-read Catholic authors. His best known musical work is his Christmas hymn ""Quanno Nascetti Ninno"", later translated into Italian by Pope Pius IX as ""Tu scendi dalle stelle"" (""From Starry Skies Thou Comest""). Alphonsus' greatest contribution to"
"Prix du Polar Européen in 2003 by her work ""La Colpa"". She was a director of the company Interno Giallo. Grimaldi died in Milan in 2012. Laura Grimaldi Laura Grimaldi (1928 – 3 July 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist and translator from English. Grimaldi was born in Rufina near Florence in 1928. Her family soon moved to Milan. She became known for her translations of notable authors writing in English. The hundreds of books She translated included works by Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Philip K. Dick, Ernest Hemingway and Ellery Queen. Grimaldi writes crime novels and her"
"summaries (of Aristotle's philosophy and world history), and historical works on major figures of the 16th century and earlier writers, such as Cicero, Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio. From 1542, when he first went to work for the Giolito, until his death in 1568, he edited 184 texts out of just over 700 titles published by Giolito. These editions included works by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Pietro Bembo, Lodovico Ariosto, Pietro Aretino, Angelo Poliziano, Jacopo Sannazzaro, and Bernardo Tasso. And he translated into Italian works of authors such as Homer, Euripides, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, the playwright Seneca, and Virgil."
"""Un'attesa"" in 1949. He subsequently gained employment as a university professor of art history, focusing in the art of the Renaissance. On January 6, 2007, he died at his home of the Via Luigi Settembrini 21 in Florence, where he lived with his wife and daughter Nara. Alessandro Parronchi Allessandro Parronchi (Florence, 26 December 1914 – Florence, 6 January 2007) was an Italian poet, art historian, and literary critic. He won the 1999 Mondello Prize for literature. Although much of his work has never been translated into English, in 1969 Grosset & Dunlap published a translation of his work on"
"a Platonic cosmic transcendence, mediated by a reconciling Trinitarian love, and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia. A similar framing structure was used by Karol Wojtyla in his 3-act play The Jeweller's Shop illustrating his phenomenological personalism derived from humanism's insights found in the natural law. The typeface Bembo is named after him. The list of his most important works is: ""Rime"" (1530); ""Gli Asolani"" (1505); ""Historia Veneta"" (1551); ""Prose della volgar lingua"" (1525); ""Carmina [Carmina Quinque Illustrium Poetarum]"" (1533); ""Epistolae."" Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, (20 May 1470 – either 11 January or 18 January, 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, literary"
"were, according to Franco Fortini, characterized by ""the choice of a humble language for pastoral situations"", his works were more complex and marked by unsureness feelings. From 1975, together with Enzo Siciliano and Alberto Moravia, he directed the literary review ""Nuovi Argomenti"". He won another Viareggio Prize for the narrative poem ""Camera da letto"" (1984–1988). His last work was ""La lucertola di Casarola"" (1997), a collection of works from his youth and other unpublished poems. Bertolucci died in Rome in 2000. Selections of his poetry has been translated into English by Charles Tomlinson and Allen Prowle. Attilio Bertolucci Attilio Bertolucci"
"a cultural journal devoted to literature in the modern industrial age. He also ran as a candidate on an Italian Socialist Party list. He died in Milan in 1966. He was an atheist. He also translated the works of Defoe, Poe, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Lawrence, Maugham and others into Italian. Elio Vittorini Elio Vittorini (; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel ""Conversations in Sicily"", for which he was jailed"
"of various works in prose and verse. He died in 1294, leaving behind a daughter, Bianca Latini, who had married Guido Di Filippo De' Castiglionchi in 1284. His tomb can be found in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence, to the left of the high altar. While in France, he wrote his Italian ""Tesoretto"" and in French his prose ""Li Livres dou Trésor"", both summaries of the encyclopaedic knowledge of the day. The latter is regarded as the first encyclopedia in a modern European language. The Italian 13th-century translation known as ""Tesoro"" was misattributed to Bono Giamboni. He also"
"have been translated into English by Taije Silverman in various venues including The Nation. Pascoli was also known as a prose essayist and for his Dante studies. Giovanni Pascoli Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. He was, together with Gabriele D'Annunzio, the greatest Italian decadent poet. Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (renamed ""San Mauro Pascoli"" in his honor in 1932), into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of"
"Alessandro Piccolomini Alessandro Piccolomini (13 June 1508 – 12 March 1579) was an Italian astronomer and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. His early works include ""Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne, o Raffaella"" (1539) and the comedies ""Amor costante"", and ""Alessandro"", (other titles are erroneously attributed to him) which were sponsored and produced by the Sienese Accademia degl'Intronati, of which he was a member and an official. Much of his literary production consisted of translations from the Classics, of which Book xiii of Ovid's Metamorphoses and"
"overall, is a discursive pile of Fortean nonsense in the very worst of the European tradition."" Peter Kolosimo Peter Kolosimo, pseudonym of Pier Domenico Colosimo (15 December 1922 – 23 March 1984), was an Italian journalist and writer. He is ranked amongst the founders of pseudoarchaeology (in Italian: ""fantarcheologia""), a controversial topic which aims to study the origins of ancient civilizations using theories and methods not accepted by the scientific community. He also popularised ancient astronaut theories of contact between extraterrestrial beings and ancient human civilizations. Of Italian-American origins, he was born in Modena, and lived in Bolzano, Turin and"
"described as dropsy, severe edema that would be described today as congestive heart failure. He died on 21 December 1375 in Certaldo, where he is buried. See Consoli's bibliography for an exhaustive listing. Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including ""The Decameron"" and ""On Famous Women"". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed"
"(""Our Ancestors"", 1952–1959) and post-modernism in the novel ""Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore..."" (""If on a Winter's Night a Traveller"", 1979). Carlo Emilio Gadda was the author of the experimental ""Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana"" (1957). Pier Paolo Pasolini was a controversial poet and novelist. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote only one novel, ""Il Gattopardo"" (""The Leopard"", 1958), but it is one of the most famous in Italian literature; it deals with the life of a Sicilian nobleman in the 19th century. Leonardo Sciascia came to public attention with his novel ""Il giorno della civetta"" (""The Day of"