Giorgio Caproni

Giorgio Caproni (Livorno, 7 January 1912 – 22 January 1990, Rome) was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French. His work was also part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]

Roma, libreria Croce, 1976, presentazione libro -Lontano dal corpo- Italo Benedetti, GiacintoSpagnoletti, Giorgio Caproni e Graziana Pentic

Early years

Caproni left Livorno at the age of ten to complete his primary studies in Genoa, where he studied first music, then literature, and where he wrote his first poems. After participating in World War II as a member of the Italian resistance movement, he spent many years as an elementary school teacher.[2]

Career

In 1945, he went to Rome, where he contributed to a number of journals; besides poetry he also wrote criticism and novellas and contributed translations. His book Il passaggio di Enea collected all of his poems written to 1956 and reflected his experiences in combat during World War II and serving with the Resistance. He also oversaw a series of translations of foreign works, chief among which was Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.[3]

In 1959, Caproni and fellow poets Antonio Seccareccia, Elio Filippo Accrocca, and Ugo Royal began the Frascati National Poetry Prize, an annual poetry competition for previously unpublished works.[4][5] The annual prize began as a cask of wine; in 1974, it was changed to a cash prize of 1,000,000 Italian lira.[6]

Caproni's poetry touches on a number of recurring themes, most notably Genoa, his mother and birthplace, and travel,[7] and combines a sense of refinement in both meter and style to immediacy and clarity of feeling.[8] Among his other works:

  • Le stanze della funicolare (1952)
  • Il seme del piangere (1959)
  • Congedo del viaggiatore cerimonioso & altre prosopopee (1965)
  • Il muro della terra (1975)
  • Il franco cacciatore (1982)
  • Conte di Kevenhüller (1986)
  • L'opera in versi (1998), containing his complete output
  • Per lei

References
  1. "Giorgio Caproni". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  2. "Maestro Caproni in cattedra per gli ultimi - la Repubblica.it".
  3. Blakesley, Jacob S. D. (2014). Modern Italian Poets. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442646421. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt5vkhmk.
  4. "Prima Festa dell'associazione Frascati Poesia" [First Festival of the Frascati Poetry Association] (in Italian). Abitare a Roma. 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  5. "Un viale per Antonio Seccareccia" [An Avenue for Antonio Seccareccia] (in Italian). Castelli News. 2011-05-21. Archived from the original on 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  6. "Finalisti del Premio nazionale di poesia "Seccareccia"" [National Seccareccia Poetry Prize Finalists] (in Italian). Castelli News. 2010-10-17. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  7. Remigi, Gabriella (2009). "Il tema del viaggio nella poesia di Giorgio Caproni". Italica. 86 (2): 239–253. JSTOR 40505881.
  8. Casoli, Giovanni (2002). Novecento letterario italiano ed europeo: Autori e testi scelti. ISBN 9788831192644.
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