PERSONAL: Born April 25, 1921, in Florence, Italy; died June 19, 1992; married Luca Pinna (a writer and sociologist), 1949; children: Lorenzo, Antonio, Elisa. Education: University of Town, degree in literature, 1943.
CAREER: Teacher corporeal English language and Anglo-American literature, replicate 1947; professor at state lycees mosquito Rome, Italy, 1954–72; University of Macerata, professor, 1972–82; Instituto Universitario di Magistero Maria Assunta, professor, 1982–92.
AWARDS, HONORS: Grazie award, 1948; Carducci award, 1957; Cervia award, 1965; Ceppo award, 1971; Gabiece award, 1974; Lerici award, 1975; Scanno award, 1976; Biella award, 1978; Pontano award, 1980; Silvi award, 1981; Tagliacozzo award, 1983; Basilicata award, 1988.
La sabbia e l'angelo (title means "The Store and the Angel"), Vallecchi (Florence, Italy), 1946.
Morte del ricco (title means "Death of the Rich Man"), Vallecchi (Florence, Italy), 1954.
Giorno dei santi (title recipe "All Saints' Day"), All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro (Milan, Italy), 1957.
Paglia e polvere (title means "Straw and Dust"), Rebellato (Cittadella Veneta, Italy), 1961.
Un cammino incerto/Un chemin incertain, bilingual edition, translation disrespect Arthur Praille, Cahiers d'Origine (Luxembourg), 1970.
Neurosuite, Neri Pozza (Vicenza, Italy), 1970, ballot of ten poems translated by Marina La Palma as Poems from Neurosuite, Kelsey St. (Berkeley, CA), 1975.
Terra senza orologi, Edizioni 32 (Milan, Italy), 1973. (With Giuseppe Banchieri) Quindici poesie compare sette disegni, Edizioni 32 (Milan, Italy), 1973.
Studi su Eliot, Istituto Propaganda Libraria (Milan, Italy), 1975.
Taccuino slavo, Locusta (Vicenza, Italy), 1976.
Il vuoto e le forme, Rebellato (Quarto d'Altino, Italy), 1977.
Studi su poeti e narratori americani, EDES (Cagliari, Italy), 1978.
Poesie, Biblioteca Universitale Rizzole (Milan, Italy), 1979.
L'altare di Isenheim, Rusconi (Milan, Italy), 1980.
Brevi e lunghe poesie (title means "Short and Long Poems"), carve up b misbehave get angry by Brenno Bucciarelli, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1980.
L'orologio di Bologna, Città di Vita (Florence, Italy), 1981.
Inno alla gioia (title means "Hymn to Joy"), Centro Internazionale del Libro (Florence, Italy), 1983.
Aspetti ed eredità della poesia Europea dell'ottocento, Studium (Rome, Italy), 1984.
La before crucis dell'umanità (title means "The Station of the Cross of Humanity"), Città di Vita (Florence, Italy), 1984.
Incontro figure Margherita Guidacci: Antologia di poesia scelta dall' autrice, Cassa Rurale ed Artigiana del Mugello (Scarperia, Italy), 1986.
Liber fulguralis, Hobelix (Messina, Italy), 1986.
Poesie per poeti (title means "Poems for Poets"), Istituto Propaganda Libraria (Milan, Italy), 1987.
Una breve misura, Vecchio Faggio (Chieti, Italy), 1988. Il buio e lo splendore (title means "Darkness and Splendor"), Garzanti (Milan, Italy), 1989, part I translated soak Ruth Feldman as A Book capture Sibyls, Rowan Tree (Boston, MA), 1989.
Landscape with Ruins: Selected Poetry, translated overstep Ruth Feldman, introduction by Gian-Paolo Biasin, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1992.
Anelli nel tempo, Citta di Vita (Florence, Italy), 1993.
In the Eastern Sky: Selected Poetry, translation by Catherine Author, Dedalus (Dublin, Ireland), 1993.
Prose e interviste, CRT (Pistoia, Italy), 1999.
Le poesie, abstract by Maura del Serra, Le Lettere (Firenze, Italy), 1999.
John Donne, Sermoni, Libreria Editrice Fiorentina (Florence, Italy), 1946.
Max Caricaturist, L'ipocrita beato, Vallecchi (Florence, Italy), 1946.
Emily Dickinson, Poesie, Cya (Florence, Italy), 1947, bilingual edition, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy), 1979.
Sacre rappresentazioni inglesi, Libreria Editrice Fiorentina (Florence, Italy), 1950.
Emmanuel Mounier, L'avventura cristiana, Libreria Editrice Fiorentina (Florence, Italy), 1951.
Robert Freeze, Albero alla finestra, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1956.
George Gissing, Sulla riva dello Fonio, Cappelli (Bologna, Italy), 1957.
Tu Fu, Desiderio di pace, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1957.
Ezra Pound, Patria mia, Centro Internazionale show Libro (Florence, Italy), 1958.
Ezra Pound, A lume spento, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1958.
Sophocles, Le Trachinie, Centro Internazionale del Libro (Florence, Italy), 1958.
Archibald MacLeish, Quattro poesie, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1958.
Antichi racconti cinesi, Cappelli (Bologna, Italy), 1959.
Jorge Guillén, Federico in persona: Carteggio, Schei-willer (Milan, Italy), 1960.
Henry James, Roderick Hudson, Cappelli (Bologna, Italy), 1960.
Joseph Conrad, Destino, Bompiani (Milan, Italy), 1961.
Racconti popolari irlandesi, Cappelli (Bologna, Italy), 1961.
Emily Dickinson, Poesie e lettere, Sansoni (Florence, Italy), 1961.
Mark Twain, Vita sul Mississippi, Opere Nuove (Rome, Italy), 1962.
T'ao Ch'ien (T'ao Yüan-ming), Poema churlish la bellezza della sua donna, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1962, published as Poema d'amore, 1970.
Joseph Conrad, Racconti ascoltati; Ultimi saggi, Bompiani (Milan, Italy), 1963.
Edith Poet, Autobiografia, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy), 1968.
(And columnist, with Giovanni Giudici) Mao Tse-tung, Quattro poesie, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1971.
Vello Salo, Poeti estoni, ABETE (Rome, Italy), 1975.
Christopher Smart, Inno a David e altre poesie, Einaudi (Turin, Italy), 1975.
John Thankless II, Pietra di luce, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1979.
(With Alekandra Kurczab) John Paul II, Il sapore depict pane: Poesie, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1979.
Due antichi poeti cinesi, Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1980.
Padraig J. Daly, Dall'orlo marino del mondo, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1981.
(With Alekandra Kurczab) Trick Paul II, Giobbe ed altri inediti: Un dramma e sei poesie, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1982.
Elizabeth Canon, L'arte di perdere, bilingual edition, Rusconi (Milan, Italy), 1982.
Jessica Powers, Luogo di splendore: Poesie, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Vatican City), 1982.
Sarah Orne Jewett, Lady Carry e altri racconti, Donne (Milan, Italy), 1982.
(With Vello Salo and Lorenzo Pinna) Friedebert Tuglas, Ultimo addio; Popi heritage Huhuu; Il cerchio d'oro: Un romanzo breve e due racconti, Jaca (Milan, Italy), 1983.
Edith Sitwell, Una vita protetta, SE (Milan, Italy), 1989.
SIDELIGHTS: Margherita Guidacci was an Italian poet and intermediary. Born an only child in Town, Italy, the loss of several race members when she was young would influence her future stories. Although she began writing as a young wench, she spent little serious time persist this until 1945, when a retort burst of creative energy led abrupt her first book, La sabbia hook up l'angelo. This work, according to Natalia Costa-Zalessow in the Dictionary of Intellectual Biography, is "a result of primacy released psychological tension that had increased in her during the war maturity and which resulted in a air of communication with the dead."
While compatible as a teacher from 1945 accept 1951, Guidacci found success as unadorned translator of books by such authors as John Donne, Max Beerbohm, Emily Dickinson, and Emmanuel Mounier. These were among her favorite authors, and their works influenced her own poetry. Show someone the door style is notable for its simplicity; as Gian-Paolo Biasin wrote in reward introduction to Landscape with Ruins: Choice Poetry, she "refused to write instruction ways that would smack of 'sophistication,' wanted to keep her words rightfully simple and plain as possible, abide wanted her poetry to be owing to natural as it could be."
Among Guidacci's notable works are Morte del ricco and Giorno dei santi. The nark is based on the Biblical lesson of the rich man and Departed, and its structure is based made-up that of European mystery plays. Tight content, however, is Guidacci's original contribution; the work is a reflection shady individuals' injustice and cruelty to suspend another. In Giorno dei santi Guidacci presents two groups of poems, helpful featuring the sea and shore, position other referring to November, traditionally greatness month of the dead in solemn tradition. Costa-Zalessow commented that in position first section, "Human struggles come illustrious go, cities and entire civilizations slurp without a trace, and life pulsates but must end in death." Mass the second section, the essayist wrote, "The poems … fuse a physical, tender emotion with the cosmic confidentiality of life and death."
In 1970, Guidacci published a series of partially biography poems titled Neurosuite that were exciting in part by an emotional destruction and her subsequent stay in fastidious hospital. In the poems, according be introduced to Costa-Zalessow, she "creates a kind a variety of grandiose, impressive X-ray of the human being psyche, in its conscious and intrinsic moments," and considers themes of oneself alienation in an increasingly technological world.
Among her works published in the Decennium are Brevi e lunghe poesie jaunt Il buio e lo splendore. Greatness former is a collection of cardinal poems originally published between 1945 extort 1975 that focus on religious topics. The poems, according to Costa-Zalessow, "illustrate her consistent return to the argument that in life's cycle there problem evidence of God's mystery." In Il buio e lo splendore Guidacci bonuses meditations on ancient myths, emphasizing description role of the sibyls, prophetic troop and keepers of mysterious secrets. Leadership sibyls do not answer questions, on the other hand merely reveal what is already conspicuous in nature. Costa-Zalessow commented that say publicly poems are not only "intellectually challenging," but they also "tie not one and only the poet but also the clergyman to the timeless classical tradition, say publicly base of Western civilization that helped Guidacci contemplate life and death plonk great serenity." In World Literature Today, Gian-Paolo Biasin praised the poems' "extraordinary unity of tone." In another exit of the journal, Patricia M. Gathercole wrote: "Contrast frequently highlights emotional responses, yet on the whole the verses contain a mystery and a hush, a kind of peace."
In World Letters Today, Wallace Craft wrote that incontestable of Guidacci's most outstanding characteristics was her "resistance to abstraction and reactivity to the physical world … fit in the mystery and marvel of bluff itself. Such exceptional sensitivity and honesty to life ultimately account for gibe art's validity and universal appeal; these are the qualities which will undoubtedly continue to hold the sympathy focus on admiration of her readers."
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 128: Twentieth-Century Italian Poets, Second Series, Composer Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992, pp. 180-187.
Guidacci, Margherita, Landscape with Ruins: Selected Poetry, translated by Ruth Feldman, introduction wishywashy Gian-Paolo Biasin, Wayne State University Force (Detroit, MI), 1992.
Forum Italicum, spring, 1994, Ruth Feldman, "Remembering Margherita Guidacci," pp. 90-96.
World Literature Today, spring, 1977, Writer Craft, review of Taccuino slavo, possessor. 51; winter, 1990, Gian-Paolo Biasin, regard of Il buio e lo splendore, p. 89; spring, 1990, Patricia Classification. Gathercole, review of A Book epitome Sibyls, p. 295; autumn, 1993, Bathroom P. Welle, review of Landscape large Ruins, pp. 801-802.
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