Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti studied at University of Turin. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is humanities. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with University of Genoa. Positions recorded include member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic. Distinctions recorded are Bagutta Prize, Bonavera Prize and Golden Wreath.

• Honorific Prefix — The Honourable • Name — Edoardo Sanguineti • Office — Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies • Term Start — 15 June 1979 • Term End — 11 July 1983 • Constituency — Genoa • Born — 9 December 1930 • Birthplace — Genoa, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 18 May 2010 • Place of death — Genoa, Italian Republic • Resting Place — Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno • Party — Italian Communist Party • Occupation — Poet, novelist, essayist, translator

In 1956, Sanguineti published his first poetry collection, Laborintus. The author adopted a “labyrinthine” structure in these poems, preceding the poetic sperimentalism that characterized the 1960s. During the 1960s, he was a leader of the neo-avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. His work was published in the first issue of 0 to 9 magazine in 1967. He was also an active translator of Joyce, Molière, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and select Greek and Latin authors. From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of the Italian Communist Party. He was an atheist.

Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency surgery for an abdominal aneurysm. He was 79.

• Capriccio italiano, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1963 • Il Giuoco dell'Oca, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1967 • Laborintus, Magenta, Varese, 1956 • Opus metricum, Rusconi e Paolazzi, Milano, 1960 (contains Laborintus ed Erotopaegnia) • Triperuno, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964 (contains Opus metricum e Purgatorio de l'Inferno) • Natural Stories # 1 (Drama Series 16), Guernica, Toronto, 1998. Translated from: Storie Naturali #1, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971. • Re-spira (Breathe) poem for Antonio Papasso, 1983, MoMA, New York City • Il colore è mio - Antonio Papasso -Retrospettiva 1999, Palazzo Comunale di Bracciano. • Il Sonetto del foglio Volante, poem for Antonio Papasso, 2006 - Italian Air Force Museum, Vigna di Valle

• J. Joyce, Poesie, Mondadori, Milano, 1961