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Italian poet (1914–2005)

Senator for life
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi in the 1970s.Mario Luzi in the 1970s.
Born(1914-10-20)20 October 1914
Sesto Fiorentino, Kingdom of Italy
Died28 February 2005(2005-02-28) (aged 90)
Florence, Italy
OccupationPoet
NationalityItalian
Period1935–2005
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Lifetime tenure
14 October 2004 – 28 February 2005
Appointed byCarlo Azeglio Ciampi

Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet.

Biography

Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Castello, where he started his primary school. In Florence he studied at the liceo classico Galileo, and also in Florence he obtained his degree in French literature with a final dissertation about François Mauriac. This was an important period for Luzi. He met poets such as Piero Bigongiari, Alessandro Parronchi, Carlo Bo, Leone Traverso, and the critic Oreste Macrì.

His first book, La barca, was published in 1935 and in 1938 he started to teach in high schools in the cities of Parma, San Miniato and Rome.

In 1940, he published Avvento notturno; in 1945 he went back to Florence and there he taught at the liceo scientifico. In 1946 he published Un brindisi e Quaderno gotico, in issue 1 of Inventario, in 1952 Onore del vero, Principe del deserto e Studio su Mallarmé. In 1955 he began teaching French literature at Florence University in the Facoltà di scienze politiche (Political Studies Institute).

Between 1963 and 1983, he published many books such as Nel magma (1963); Dal fondo delle campagne (1965); Semiserie (1979), Reportage (1985). In 1978, with the book Al fuoco della controversia, he won the Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio). He won the Aristeion Prize in 1991 for his work Frasi e Incisi di un Canto Salutare; in the same year he was proposed for the first time by the Accademia dei Lincei for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ultimately never awarded, when asked for his thoughts by one reporter on his fellow countryman Dario Fo's 1997 success he slammed the phone down: "I'll say only this. I've just about had it up to here!"

His last book, L'avventura della dualità, was published in 2003. In October 2004, he was appointed to the Italian Senate as a senator-for-life by President of the Republic Ciampi. He died in Florence, just some months later, on 28 February 2005.

List of works

  • La barca (1935)
  • Avvento notturno (1940)
  • Biografia a Ebe (1942)
  • Un brindisi (1946)
  • Quaderno gotico (1947)
  • Primizie del deserto (1952)
  • Onore del vero (1957)
  • Il giusto della vita (1960)
  • Nel magma (1963; new edition, 1966)
  • Dal fondo delle campagne (1965)
  • Su fondamenti invisibili (1971)
  • Al fuoco della controversia (1978)
  • Semiserie (1979)
  • Reportage, un poemetto seguito dal Taccuino di viaggio in Cina (1980)
  • Per il battesimo dei nostri frammenti (1985)
  • La cordigliera delle Ande e altri versi tradotti (1983)
  • Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare (1990)
  • Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini (1994)
  • Il fiore del dolore (2003)
  • L'avventura della dualità (2003)

References

  1. Gumbel, Andrew (10 October 1997). "Nobel Prize: Dario Fo, the showman, wins Nobel literature prize". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2013.

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Awards received by Mario Luzi
Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s
1940sSilvio MicheliUmberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo PalazzeschiElsa MoranteSibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo JemoloRenata Viganò (1949)
1950sFrancesco JovineCarlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo LeviGianna Manzini (1956) • Italo CalvinoPier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960sGiovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio DelfiniSergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero OttieriAlfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970sNello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario TobinoDario BellezzaSergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio AltomonteMario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980sStefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina LagorioBruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990sLuisa AdornoCesare VivianiMaurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio MaggianiElio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno ReaAlda Merini (1996) • Claudio PiersantiFranca GrisoniCorrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio PressburgerMichele SoventeCarlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000sGiorgio van StratenSandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò AmmanitiMichele RanchettiGiorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur JaeggyJolanda InsanaAlfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo AlbinatiAndrea TagliapietraLivia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La CapriaAlberto ArbasinoMilo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni CelatiGiovanni AgostiGiuseppe ConteRoberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo TuenaPaolo MauriSilvia BreSimona BaldanziPaolo ColagrandePaolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca SanvitaleMiguel GotorEugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith BruckAdriano ProsperiEnnio Cavalli (2009)
2010sNicola LagioiaMichele EmmerPierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro MariMario LavagettoGian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola GardiniFranco Lo PiparoAntonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di StefanoGiulio GuidorizziEnrico Testa (2013) • Francesco PecoraroAlessandro FoLuciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio ScuratiMassimo BucciantiniFranco Buffoni (2015) • Franco CordelliBruno PischeddaSonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco CalligarichGiuseppe MontesanoStefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio GenovesiGiuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele TreviRenato MinoreSaverio Ricci (2019)
2020sPaolo Di PaoloLuciano CecchinelGiulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli BorrelliPietro CastellittoClaudio DamianiWlodek GoldkornAgnese PiniVeronica RaimoSilvia Ronchey (2022)
Recipients of the Mondello Prize
Single Prize for Literature
Special Jury Prize
First narrative work
First poetic work
Prize for foreign literature
Prize for foreign poetry
First work
Foreign author
Italian Author
"Five Continents" Award
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award
Ignazio Buttitta Award
Supermondello
Special award of the President
Poetry prize
Translation Award
Identity and dialectal literatures award
Essays Prize
Mondello for Multiculturality Award
Mondello Youths Award
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa
Prize for Literary Criticism
Award for best motivation
Special award for travel literature
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello
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