Roberto Carifi

• Name — Roberto Carifi • Born — 1948 • Birthplace — Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy • Field — Poetry, Philosophy • Movement — Hermeticism

Since his university years, Carifi was attracted by French and German philosophy; in his mature age he also crossed paths with Buddhist, getting influenced, for instance, in his collections such as Tibet and The Secret. Alongside philosophical studies, there are those of psychoanalysis, first carried out at L'École Freudienne in Paris, as an auditor at the lectures held by Jacques Lacan, and continued in Milan. Carifi poetic has been deeply influenced by the lyrical voices of Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, on which he also practiced as a translator. In addition of being a poet, he worked as a literary critic. In 2004, he got a stroke which affected and slow down his creativity.

• Il gesto di Callicle (Società di Poesia, Milano 1982); • Il segreto e il dono (EGEA, Milano 1994); • Le parole del pensiero (Le Lettere, Firenze 1995); • Il male e la luce (I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, Porretta Terme 1997); • L’essere e l’abbandono (Il Ramo d’Oro, Firenze 1997); • Nomi del Novecento (Le Lettere, Firenze 2000); • Nome di donna (Raffaelli, Rimini 2010).