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Andrea Zanzotto (10 October 1921 – 18 October 2011) [1] was an Italian poet. Biography. Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo (province of Treviso, Veneto), Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi.
Andrea Zanzotto nacque nel 1921 a Pieve di Soligo da Giovanni e Carmela Bernardi. Durante i primi due anni di vita, visse in un vicolo vicino a via Sartori, ma due anni dopo, nel 1922, la famiglia si trasferì nella contrada di Cal Santa, dove il padre, che lavorava come miniatore, decoratore e ritrattista, aveva acquistato casa: saranno questi i luoghi più volte descritti dal poeta e la casa ...
From the fall of Fascism in the 1940s to the economic boom of the late 1950s, and from the student protests and “hot autumn” of the 1960s to the advent of a mass culture in the 1970s, Zanzotto’s poetry has registered the profound social and cultural changes that have transformed postwar Italy.
The first comprehensive collection in thirty years to translate this master European poet for an English-speaking audience, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key ...
Overview. Andrea Zanzotto. (b. 1921) Quick Reference. (1921– ) is widely recognized as Italy's greatest living poet. He was born near Treviso in the village of Pieve di Soligo, where he still lives and where he worked for ... From: Zanzotto, Andrea in The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature » Subjects: Literature.
Andrea Zanzotto’s poetry (1921, Pieve di Soligo – 2011, Conegliano) stands out both in Italy and internationally for its intellectual rigour and stylistic inventiveness. According to Zanzotto, poetry is a very peculiar alphabet whereby poets can question the world well beyond the limits of writing.
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The first comprehensive collection in thirty years to translate this master European poet for an English-speaking audience, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key ...
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