Edoardo Sanguineti

The Honourable
 Edoardo Sanguineti
Member of the
Italian Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 June 1979 – 11 July 1983
Constituency Genoa
Personal details
Born 9 December 1930(1930-12-09)
Genoa
Died 18 May 2010(2010-05-18) (aged 79)
Genoa
Resting place Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno[1]
Nationality Italian
Political party Italian Communist Party

Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.

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Biography

During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto.

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 PCI.

Death

Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency surgery for an abdominal aneurysm. He was 79.[2]

Works

Translations

References

  1. ^ "Pantheon, Sanguineti tra i grandi" (in Italian). Il Secolo XIX. 20 May 2010. http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/genova/2010/05/20/AMU9DyhD-pantheon_sanguineti_grandi.shtml. Retrieved 25 July 2010. 
  2. ^ "Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet, 79, dies". Associated Press. 18 May 2010. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8K7X6DyHzW1Hn2TLQLjwt_SlHWQD9FPFA300. Retrieved 18 May 2010. 

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