Elio Pecora (b. 1936)
Elio Pecora is an Italian poet and writer, also editor of the magazine “Poeti e Poesia”. His works explore contemporary topics, as the loneliness of man and his relationship with nature.
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Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011)
Andrea Zanzotto was an Italian poet. He was an exponent of avant-garde, with echoes from Hermeticism and Surrealism. His poetry is about consciousness, dream and deep philosophical reflections. The language is difficult and may cause lack of communication.
Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908-1981)
Leonardo Sinisgalli was an Italian poet and art critic. His early education and careers led to him being called the “engineer poet”: he studied engineering and mathematics, and worked as an architect and graphic artist. Sinisgalli focused on themes from ancestral southern Italian myths and from existentialism and realism. He was a close friend of the …
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. He enter the Italian Resistance during World War II. Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.
Alfonso Gatto (1909-1976)
Alfonso Gatto was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry. His language is rarefied and allusive. Nature and love are his main themes.
Mario Luzi (1914-2005)
Mario Luzi was an Italian poet. He was a prominent member of Hermeticism. His main themes are disquiet, conflict, search for identity and meaning of life in lonely, windy and harsh landscapes.