Vittorio Sereni
Illustration — Vittorio Sereni in Milan in 1975 Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence. Vittorio Sereni was born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936.
Vittorio Sereni

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- Born
- 1913. · Luino.
- Died
- 1983. · Milan.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- linguist, poet, writer and translator.
- Movements
- Lombard line.
- Education
- University of Milan.
- Honours
- Bagutta Prize, Feltrinelli Prize, Viareggio Prize, Premio Monselice and Mondello Prize.
- Languages
- French and Italian.
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Illustration — Vittorio Sereni in Milan in 1975 Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence. Vittorio Sereni was born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936.
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Identity and origins
In 1938, he co-founded the literary review Corrente di Vita. In 1941, he published Frontiera, his first collection of poetry. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World War II: captured by Allied forces in 1943, he spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Algeria and Morocco. These experiences formed the basis for his second poetry book, Diario d'Algeria. After the war, Sereni worked as a teacher and literary critic. From the mid-1950s until his retirement in 1976, he was literary director of the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house. His later collections of poetry included Gli strumenti umani (1965) and Stella variabile (1981). He was a prolific translator, rendering into Italian the works of Pierre Corneille, Paul Valéry and William Carlos Williams, among others. His collection of translated poems, Il musicante di Saint-Merry, was awarded the 1982 Bagutta Prize. Sereni's works are collected in English in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition (2006), translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson.
He also worked under the name Congino. His recorded languages were French and Italian. Other recorded relations include Piero Dorfles.

Portrait of Italian writer and poet Vittorio Sereni. Milan, 1975.
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1913
Vittorio Sereni born at Luino.
1983
Vittorio Sereni died at Milan.
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- Vittorio Sereni nella vita di un poeta inglese, Vittorio Sereni, un altro compleanno, 2014
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- 1.Sereni Vittorio (Luino, 1913 luglio 27 - Milano, 1983 febbraio 10) – Archivi storici – Lombardia Beni Culturali.
- 2.VITTORIO SERENI. Cosa Vedere A Luino.
- 3.Notizia biografica in Vittorio Sereni, Il grande amico. Poesie 1935-1981, Milano, Rizzoli, 1990, p. 27.
- 4.Franco D'Intino. FERRATA, Giansiro in "Dizionario Biografico". www.treccani.it.
- 5.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Mondadori. 1995.
- 6.I cent'anni del poeta Vittorio Sereni. Fondazione Pirelli. 29 marzo 2013.
- 7.Notizia biografica in Vittorio Sereni, Il grande amico. Poesie 1935-1981, Milano, Rizzoli, 1990, p. 28.
- 8.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Mondadori. 1995.
- 9.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Un'antologia per la scuola. Nastro & Nastro. 1993.
- 10.Giovanni Giudici, Vittorio Sereni, Quei versi che restano sempre in noi. Lettere 1955-1982, a cura di Laura Massari, Archinto, Milano, 2021, p. 43n.
- 11.Premi Feltrinelli 1950-2011. lincei.it.
- 12.Matteo Bartocci. Il cuscinetto di Sereni. il manifesto. 2019-08-24.
- 13.Giovanni Giudici, Vittorio Sereni, Quei versi che restano sempre in noi. Lettere 1955-1982, a cura di Laura Massari, Archinto, Milano, 2021, p. 120n.
- 14.La parola e la sua rappresentazione. Cesati. 2014.
- 15.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Un'antologia per la scuola. Nastro & Nastro. 1993.
- 16.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Un'antologia per la scuola. Nastro & Nastro. 1993.
- 17.Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci / Edizione 1982. premioletterarioviareggiorepaci.it.
- 18.Pietro De. «Mai tutto è veramente detto». Memoria e riscrittura nelle prose di “Senza l’onore delle armi” [pp. 36-49]. 4. 2025-08-02. 10.54103/inopera/29296.
- 19.Andrea Mainente, Vittorio Sereni e il fantasma nerazzurro, rivistacontrasti.it, 10 febbraio 2022.
- 20.Mario Spolverini, Inter, Vittorio Sereni poeta del tifo nerazzurro contro i pregiudizi sul calcio, interdipendenza.net, 7 ottobre 2021.
- 21.Maria Borio, Per Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983). Da “Frontiera”, nuoviargomenti.net, 23 luglio 2013.
- 22.. Orig. in Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (a cura di), Poeti italiani del Novecento, Milano, Mondadori, 1978.
- 23.. Orig. in Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (a cura di), Poeti italiani del Novecento, Milano, Mondadori, 1978.
- 24.. Orig. in Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (a cura di), Poeti italiani del Novecento, Milano, Mondadori, 1978.
- 25.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Un'antologia per la scuola. Nastro & Nastro. 1993.
- 26.Fabio Michieli. Un profondo turbamento: la poesia di Vittorio Sereni nelle pagine di Franco Fortini. Poetarum Silva. 1º settembre 2012.
- 27.Cita Tarasco (2013) p. 90 .
- 28.Gilberto Lonardi, Introduzione a Vittorio Sereni, Il grande amico. Poesie 1935-1981, Milano, Rizzoli, 1990, pp. 8-11.
- 29.Vittorio Sereni. Poesie. Un'antologia per la scuola. Nastro & Nastro. 1993.
- 30.Tra i partecipanti al convegno, oltre a Dante Isella: Raffaello Baldini, Ferruccio Benzoni, Attilio Bertolucci, Piero Bigongiari, Franco Buffoni, Roberto Carifi, Maurizio Cucchi, Piero Del Giudice, Luciano Erba, Umberto Fiori, Gabriele Frasca, Tomaso Kemeny, Vivian Lamarque, Mario Luzi, Giorgio Luzzi, Giacomo Magrini, Ariodante Marianni, Giorgio Orelli, Alessandro Parronchi, Fabio Pusterla, Giovanni Raboni, Silvio Ramat, Jean-Charles Vegliante, Cesare Viviani, Andrea Zanzotto. Due foto sono pubblicate sul sito dedicato a Giovanni Raboni: e
- 31.“La poesia e le cose”.
- 32.Dante Isella (a cura di), Per Vittorio Sereni. Convegno di poeti (Luino, 25-26 maggio 1991), Milano, All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro, 1992, .
- 33.Storia dell'archivio. Archivio Vittorio Sereni.
- 34.Archivio Vittorio Sereni (sec.XX). Beni Culturali - Regione Lombardia.
- 35.Sereni, Vittorio (1953 - 1974). lombardiarchivi.servizirl.it.
- 36.Direzione letteraria. Vittorio Sereni. dati.san.beniculturali.it.
- 37.Gianfranca Lavezzi. SERENI, Vittorio in "Dizionario Biografico". 2018.
- 38.Giuseppe Antonio Camerino. SERENI, Vittorio in "Enciclopedia Italiana". Treccani. 1981.
- 39.I VINCITORI DEL PREMIO “MONSELICE” PER LA TRADUZIONE. bibliotecamonselice.it.
- 40.Storia-linea del Tempo: Cronologia dei vincitori del premio Bagutta. SchoolSpace.
- 41.L'Albo d'Oro dei vincitori - La storia del premio. Premio letterario internazionale Mondello.
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