Modern Italian Poets
Here you can find a selection of various modern Italian poets
realism
Dario Bellezza (1944-1996)
Dario Bellezza was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He was close to Sandro Penna, Aldo Palazzeschi and Elsa Morante. Bellezza was discovered by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who defined him as “the best poet of the new generation”. His work also tells about the difficulty of homosexual life in Rome and its secrecy.
Giovanni Raboni (1932-2004)
Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic, interested in theater too. His work focuses on modern society and life in city, especially Milan.
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.
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
Primo Levi is remembered for being a partisan, a Holocaust survivor and a writer. In 1943 he was arrested and deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, from which he managed to escaped. His most famous novel (If this is a man, 1947) tells the terrible atrocities seen and suffered. He adheres to Neorealism and …