Angelo Maria Ripellino
Italian translator, poet, linguist and academic
Angelo Maria Ripellino | |
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| Born | 4 December 1923 Palermo, Italy |
| Died | 21 April 1978 (1978-04-22) (aged 54) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer |
Angelo Maria Ripellino (4 December 1923 - 21 April 1978) was an Italian translator, poet, linguist and academic.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, the son of a high school professor, in 1945 Ripellino graduated in Slavistics at the University of Palermo.[1] In 1947 he enrolled the filmmaking courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; the same year he married Ela Hlochova, a Czech student of Italian literature he had known during a 1946 study travel in Prague, who would who would become his closer collaborator.[1]
Active as a theatre critic and a poet since 1940, after his university degree he focused his works on translations, critical essays and literary history books about Russian, Polish and Czech-Slovak literature.[1] Among Ripellino's major works are Poesia russa del Novecento ("Russian Poetry of the 20th Century", 1954), Majakovskij e il teatro russo d’avanguardia ("Majakovsky and Russian avant-garde theatre", 1959), Magic Prague (Italian:Praga magica, 1973).[1] He had a key role in popularizing several Russian authors to the Italian public, notably Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok.[1]
In 1965 he won the Viareggio Prize with Il trucco e l’anima. I maestri della regia nel teatro russo del Novecento ("The Trick and the Soul. The masters of stage direction in 20th-century Russian theatre").[1] He authored the Slavic theatre section of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts.[1] He collaborated with several important publications, including Corriere della Sera and L'Espresso, and was consultant for Russian literature for Einaudi publisher.[1][2] Ripellino also had an important academic career, first as a lecturer of Slavic philology and Czech language at the University of Bologna, and later as professor of Russian language and literature and Czech-Slovak literature at the Sapienza University of Rome.[1]
Ripellino suffered from tuberculosis from early age and underwent a pneumectomy. He died because of the consequences of a cardiovascular crisis in 1978.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cesare G. De Michelis (2016). "Ripellino, Angelo Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 87. Treccani.
- ^ Gabriele Mazzitelli. "A.M. Ripellino, Lettere e schede editoriali (1954-1977)". Studi Slavistici, vol. 17, no. 2, July-Dec. 2020, pp. 307+. Firenze University Press. Accessed 9 February 2022 via Gale Academic OneFile.
External links
- Angelo Maria Ripellino at Open Library
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
- Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
- Corrado Tumiati (1931)
- Antonino Foschini (1932)
- Achille Campanile (1933)
- Raffaele Calzini (1934)
- Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
- Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
- Guelfo Civinini (1937)
- Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
- Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)
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