Raffaello Baldini
Born(1924-11-24)24 November 1924
Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy
Died28 March 2005(2005-03-28) (aged 80)
Milan, Italy
OccupationPoet
Alma materUniversity of Bologna
Notable worksAd nòta

Raffaello Baldini (1924– 2005) was an Italian writer and poet. His Ad nòta (1995) won the Premio Bagutta.

With Tonino Guerra and Nino Pedretti, Baldini is part of a trio of poets from Santarcangelo di Romagna. He wrote in Romagnol.[1]

Biography

Baldini was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna in 1924.[2] In the immediate postwar period, the young poets from Santarcangelo gathered at the Caffe Trieste, on the Piazza delle Erbe, owned by Baldini's parents.[1] These students rechristened the bar "the Circle of Wisdom". This gave Baldini the opportunity of getting to know Tonino Guerra, Nino Pedretti, Gianni Fucci, Flavio Nicolini, Rina Macrelli, and other artists from the neighbouring countryside.

Baldini attended Rimini's classical lyceum. He graduated in philosophy from the University of Bologna, then spent some years teaching literature in secondary schools in Santarcangelo and philosophy in Forlì. For some time, he taught Italian at a lyceum in Rennes.[1]

Returning to Italy in 1955, Baldini moved to Milan to work as a writer. His first work, Autotem (Bompiani, 1967) was a short comedy satirising fetishes for cars. In 1976, he financed the publication of É solitèri (Galeati: 1976), Imola, his first collection of poems written in Romagnol. Further collections followed in La nàiva (1982) and Furistír (1988).[1]

In 1968, Baldini began as a journalist in the Milanese news magazine Panorama, where he worked for twenty years first on religious affairs, then on cultural news.[1]

In 1967 he published Autotem with Bompiani, a short opera satirising how cars are seen as a fetish. He self-published a collection of dialectical poetry É solitèri in 1976 in Imola. He published La nàiva in 1982, followed by Furistír in 1988, which won the Viareggio Prize in the same year.[1] Baldini also won the Bagutta Prize in 1995 with Ad nòta.

He also wrote for theatre. He wrote a monologue Zitti tutti!, published by Ubulibri in 1993. Ravenna Theatre produced the show Furistír, directed and adapted by Marco Martinelli, which was created as a fusion of eight collections of Baldini's poetry.

Works

Collections of poetry

  • 1976. É solitèri, Imola, Galeati. (Gabicce Prize)
  • 1982. La nàiva, introduction by D. Isella, Torino, Einaudi. (Premio Carducci )
  • 1988. Furistír, introduction by F. Brevini, Torino, Einaudi. (Premio Viareggio)
  • 1995. Ad nòta, introduction by P. V. Mengaldo, Milano, Mondadori. (Bagutta Prize)
  • 2000. Ciacri, Torino, Einaudi
  • 2003. Intercity, Torino, Einaudi.

Theatrical monologues

  • 1993. Zitti tutti!, Torino, Einaudi.
  • 1998. Carta canta, Torino, Einaudi.
  • 2003. In fondo a destra, Torino, Einaudi.
  • 2004. La fondazione,Torino, Einaudi.

Translations in English

  • 2001 Page Proof (Carta canta) Edited by Daniele Benati, Translated by Adria Bernardi. Boca Raton, Florida. Bordighera Press.
  • 2009 Small Talk (È solitèri, La nàiva, Furistír, Ciacri) edited and translated by Adria Bernardi. New York, Gradiva Publications.

See also

  • Aldo Spallicci

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Della Monica, Walter (20 November 1993). "Un "Rossellini" della poesia" [A "Rosselini" of poetry] (PDF). Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Della Monica, Walter (20 November 1993). "Un "Rossellini" della poesia" [A "Rosselini" of poetry] (PDF). Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2024.

Bibliography

  • C. Martignoni, "Per non-finire. Sulla poesia di Raffaello Baldini", Campanotto Edition, 2004
  • G. Bellosi-M. Ricci (editor), "Lei capisce il dialetto? Raffaello Baldini tra poesia e teatro", Longo Edition, 2003
  • S. Crespi, "Poesia in versi romagnoli di Raffaello Baldini," in Otto Novecento, 1, Jan–Feb 1980, pp. 299–303;
  • F. Brevini, "L'apocalisse romagnola di Baldini," in the European magazine Nuova, 28 (March–May 1982), pp. 110–114;
  • Manlio Cancogni, "Se il dialetto è un felice dialetto," from Il Giornale, 7 April 1984;
  • M. Bocchiola, "La coazione poetica per un labirinto romagnolo," in Autografo, 5, (June 1985);
  • P. Civitareale, "Raffaello Baldini. Il borbottio infinito," in Oggi e domani, 24, n. 4, 1990, pp. 11–13;
  • L. Benini Sforza, "Elementi per una storia della poesia dialettale del secondo Novecento in Romagna," in Tratti, 36 (summer 1994);
  • C. Marabini, "Spoon river in Romagna," in Il resto del Carlino, 22 August 1995;
  • E.Siciliano, "Quanta verità nel suo dialetto," in L'Espresso, 26 November 1995;
  • E. Zuccato. Recensione di Ad nòta, in Poesia, 91, January 1996, pp. 58–9.
  • Autori Vari, Voci Tre grandi poeti in musica, con Tonino Guerra e Nino Pedretti, Rimini, NdA Press, 2009, ISBN 978-88-89035-37-5.
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