Giorgio Orelli

Giorgio Orelli ( born May 25, 1921 in Airolo, Ticino Canton, † November 10, 2013 in Ravecchia, Canton Ticino) was a Swiss writer, literary critic and translator.

Life

Giorgio Orelli was a cousin of the novelist and poet Giovanni Orelli Ticino. Of his works - mainly poetry and essays - has been translated into German, a large part of his poems. Orelli himself translated in 1957 a selection of poems by Goethe and 1975 poems by Andri Peer into Italian.

After his studies in Fribourg Giorgio Orelli moved to Bellinzona, where he worked as a teacher of Italian literature to 1986.

Poetry

  • Né bianco né viola, collana di Lugano, Lugano, 1944.
  • Prima dell'anno nuovo, Leins e Vescovi, Bellinzona 1952.
  • Poetry, Edizioni della Meridiana, Milan 1953.
  • L' ora del tempo, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1962.
  • 6 poetry, Scheiwiller, Milan 1964.
  • 5 poetry, with 5 screen printing Madja Rupert, San Nazzaro 1973.
  • Sinopie, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1977.
  • Spira coli, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1989.
  • Il collo dell'anitra, Garzanti, Milan 2001.

Prose

  • Un giorno della vita, Lerici, Milan 1960.
  • Pomeriggio Bellinzonese to Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, Casagrande, Bellinzona 1978.

Essays

  • Accertamenti verbalized, Bompiani, Milan 1978.
  • Quel ramo del Lago di Como, Casa Grande, Bellinzona in 1982 and 1990.
  • Accertamenti montaliani ( Eugenio Montale), Il Mulino, Bologna 1984.
  • Il suono dei sospiri, Einaudi, Turin 1990.
  • Foscolo e la danzatrice, Pratiche, Parma 1992.
  • La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi, Casagrande, Bellinzona, 2012.

Works ( in German )

  • Second leg - Partita di ritorno. Poems in Italian and German. Selected and translated by Christopher Ferber. With a conversation between Giorgio Orelli and Alice Vollenweider and an afterword by Maria Antonietta Grignani. Limmat, Zurich, 1998; 2nd revised edition 1999, ISBN 3-85791-318-5
  • Tell it to the blackbirds - Ditelo ai merli. Poems in Italian and German. Selected and translated by Christopher Ferber. With an epilogue and an interview with Giorgio Orelli by Pietro De Marchi. Limmat, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-556-7

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