Diego Valeri (poet)

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Diego Valeri
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Born(1887-01-25)January 25, 1887
Piove di Sacco
DiedNovember 28, 1976(1976-11-28) (aged 89)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Poet, teacher, translator, literary critic

Diego Valeri (25 January 1887, Piove di Sacco - 28 November 1976) was an Italian poet, teacher, translator, and literary critic. [1] [2]

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Valeri was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and Alleanza della cultura. In 1967 he received the Viareggio Prize.

Biography

Valeri was born in Piove di Sacco on 25 January 1887. [3] He attended the University of Padua, where he studied under philologist Vincenzo Crescini. He graduated in 1908 with a thesis on the impact of French theater on the works of Paolo Ferrari. In 1913 he published his first works, Monodia d'amore and Le gaie tristezze. The following year Valeri traveled to Paris to attend a course at Sorbonne before returning to Italy to become a teacher. [2] [4]

During his time as a teacher Valeni was a columnist for the magazine Nuova Antologia, where he also published several translations and verses. He would later reprint these under the title Umana in 1916, Crisalide in 1919, and Ariele in 1924. These would later be collected as part of Poesie vecchie e nuove in 1939. [2]

In 1939 Valeri began teaching at the University of Padua and later held the university's chair of History of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. He held this position for a total of twenty years, excluding the years of Nazi occupation from 1943 to 1945, during which time he lived in Switzerland as a political refugee. During his time in refuge Valeri worked as a publicist and translator.[ citation needed ]

Valeri returned to Italy after the end of World War II and briefly served as the editor for Il Gazzettino . [2] He joined the Alleanza della cultura in 1948 and in 1950, attended the Berlin conference. He also taught at the University of Salento. After retiring from teaching Valeri served on the city council for Venice and between 1969 through 1973, served as the president of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.[ citation needed ] Valeri was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. [5]

Valeri died in Rome on 27 November 1976. During his lifetime Valeri was a prolific poet and wrote over 300 poems in Italian and French; Valeri has stated that he has "sacrificed almost as many as I have saved". [3] For his work, Valeri won the Viareggio Prize. [6]

Themes

Valeri's work contains themes of everyday life and humanity. Per Gaetana Marrone, he also "wrote in French with the dual purpose of meeting Europe on its own terms and moving away from Ialian regionalism, the latter motive putting him at odds with Italian cultural circles." [5]

Works

Poetry

Studies and essays

Various writings

Theater

Translations

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Thomas E. Peterson, University of Georgia
  2. 1 2 3 4 Peterson, Thomas Erling (1 January 2010). "Diego Valeri: A Classic Poet in the Modern Era". The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature. University of Toronto Press. pp. 112–128. ISBN   978-1-4426-4089-4.
  3. 1 2 My Name on the Wind: Selected Poems of Diego Valeri. Princeton University Press. 14 July 2014. pp. ix–xii. ISBN   978-1-4008-5991-7.
  4. ↑ "Diego Valeri: Research Starters". EBSCO. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  5. 1 2 Marrone, Gaetana (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Taylor & Francis. p. 1943. ISBN   978-1-57958-390-3.
  6. ↑ Fleming, Ray (2006). "Three Translations of Diego Valeri by Ray Fleming". Pacific Coast Philology. 41: 39–42. ISSN   0078-7469.
  7. ↑ Marinoni, A. (1927). "Books in Italian: "Ariele (review)"". Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly. University of Oklahoma Press.


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