Giorgio Orelli (25 May 1921 – 10 November 2013) was an Italian language-speaking Switzerland poet, writer and translator.
He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philology Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.
Giorgio Orelli was a post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation.[Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, Quarta generazione: la giovane poesia (1945-1954), Magenta, Varese, 1954] Called the Tuscany from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism".[Encyclopædia Britannica [1]]
He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines ( Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura). His cousin Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet.
Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier Michela Figini.
Poetic works
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Né bianco né viola, Lugano, Collana di Lugano, 1944.
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Prima dell'anno nuovo, Bellinzona, Leins e Vescovi, 1952.
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Poesie, Milan, Edizioni della Meridiana, 1953.
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Nel cerchio familiare, Milan, Scheiwiller, 1960.
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L'ora del tempo, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1962.
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6 poesie, Milan, Scheiwiller, 1964.
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5 poesie, con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti, San Nazzaro, Switzerland, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973.
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Sinopie, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1977.
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Spiracoli, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989.
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Il collo dell'anitra, Milan, Garzanti, 2001.
Poems translated in English
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by Lynne Lawner in Verse Daily,
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by Marco Sonzogni [2],
Prose
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Un giorno della vita, Milan, Lerici, 1960.
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Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.
Translations
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Goethe, Poesie scelte, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974.
Essays
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Accertamenti verbali, Milan, Bompiani, 1978.
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Quel ramo del Lake Como, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1982 e 1990.
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Accertamenti Eugenio Montale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1984.
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Il suono dei sospiri, Torino, Einaudi, 1990.
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Ugo Foscolo e la danzatrice, Parma, Pratiche, 1992.
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La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2012.
Awards
External links
Notes
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Andri Peer, Giorgio Orelli: An Italian Poet from Switzerland, Books Abroad, 1971, p. 247-251
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John L. Flood, Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity, London, 1985
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P.V. Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento, Mondadori, 2003
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C. Mésoniat, Giorgio Orelli, poeta e critico, Casagrande, 1980
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John Butcher and Mario Moroni (Ed.), From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies, Leicester, 2004
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Luciano Anceschi, Lombard line, Magenta, Varese, 1952
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Pietro De Marchi, Dove portano le parole. Sulla poesia di Giorgio Orelli e altro Novecento, Manni, Lecce, 2002
