Amelia Rosselli

Amelia Rosselli ( born March 28, 1930 in Paris, † February 11, 1996 in Rome) was an Italian poet.

Life

Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of anti-fascists and historian Carlo Rosselli and Marion Caves, a Quaker and activist from the Workers' Party. After the murder of his father and uncle (Nello Rosselli ) by the right-wing secret society La Cagoule in France in 1937, Rosselli lived from 1940 to 1946 in Switzerland, the U.S., and England, where she studied literature, philosophy and music.

From 1947 lived Rosselli in Italy, worked as an editor and translator for various publishers and the RAI and published in the journals Botteghe Oscure, Civiltà delle Macchine, Il Verri and Il Menabò. It is among the members of the Italian literary movement Neoavanguardia.

On 11 February 1996 the same day as the revered and translated by her poetess Sylvia Plath 33 years ago, Rosselli committed suicide in Rome.

According to her the Premio Amelia Rosselli named the city of Rome by gli editori Romanized.

Works

Poetry

• Primi scritti ( 1952-63 ) ( 1980)
• Variazioni belliche. Garzanti, Milan 1964.
• Series ospedaliera. Il Saggiatore, Milan 1969.
• Documento ( 1966-1973 ). Garzanti, Milan 1976.
• Impromptu. San Marco dei Giustiniani, Genova 1981.
• Appunti sparsi e persi ( 1966-1977 ). Aelia Laelia, Reggio Emilia 1983.
• La Libellula. Studio Editoriale, Genoa 1985.
• Antologia poetica (1987 )
• Sleep. Poetry in inglese (1992 )

Stories

• Prime prose italiane (1954 )
• Nota (1967-1968)
• Diario ottuso (1968 )

Collections of articles

• Walking tours metrici (1964 )
• Una scrittura plural. Saggi e interventi critici (2004, posthumous)

• Author
• Poetry
• Italian
• Born in 1930
• Died in 1996
• Woman