- Attilio Bertolucci
Attilio Bertolucci (
November 18 ,1911 -June 14 ,2000 ) was an Italian poet and writer. He is father to film directors Bernardo andGiuseppe Bertolucci .Biography
Bertolucci was born at
San Lazzaro (province of Parma ), to a family of agricultural bourgesy of northern Italy.He began to write poems very early. In 1928 he collaborated to the "Gazzetta di Parma", where is friend
Cesare Zavattini was editor-in-chief. The following year Bertolucci published his first poetical collection, "Sirio".In 1931 he started his studies of law in the
University of Parma , which however he left soon in favour of artistical and literary studies. In the following year his work "Fuochi di Novembre" gained him the praise of Italian poets likeEugenio Montale .In 1951 he moved to Rome. His marriage with Ninetta Giovanardi had given him two sons, Bernardo (1940) and Giuseppe (1947), both future film directors. In 1951 he also published "La capanna indiana" and won the Viareggio Award for literature. In this period he cemented a friendship with
Pier Paolo Pasolini .Of 1971 is one of Bertolucci's finest works, "Viaggio d'inverno" ("Winter Voyage"). This work saw a notworthy change of style in Bertolucci's poetry: while the first works 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 andAlberto Moravia , he directed the literary review "Nuovi Argomenti ". He won another Viareggio Award 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letto" (1984-1988).His last work was "La lucertola di Casarola" (1997), a collection of works from his youth and other unpublished poems.
Attilio Bertolucci died in Rome in 2000.
A selection of his poetry has been translated into English by
Charles Tomlinson .Bibliography
*"Sirio" (1929)
*"Fuochi di novembre" (1932)
*"La capanna indiana" (1951)
*"Viaggio d'inverno" (1971)
*"Camera da letto" (2 vols., 1984-1988, poem-novel)
*"Aritmie" (1991, essays)
*"Verso le sorgenti del cinghio" (1993)
*"Una lunga amicizia" (1994, letters)
*"La lucertola di Casarola" (1997)External links
* [http://www.club.it/autori/grandi/attilio.bertolucci/poesie.html Two poems by Attilio Bertolucci]
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