Paolo Buzzi

Paolo Buzzi (15 February 1874 in Milan – 18 February 1956) was an Italian futurist playwright and poet.

Biography

Buzzi studied law in Pavia, and at the same time attended lectures in literature. In 1891, he won the milanese Concorso di Poesia award. In 1898 with Rapsodie leopardiane his poetry career begun in ernest. In 1905 he won the title of Best Italian Language Poet in a competition in the literary magazine Poesia, founded by Marinetti and Sem Benelli. He started thus to write for Poesia, and became a noted futurist, experimenting with poetical and theatrical form. He also tried filming. In later years he left the futurist work ethos and worked with traditional forms of poetry.

Works

• Poesie leopardiane 1898, Galli e Raimondi, Milan
• L'esilio, 1906, Galli e Raimondi, Milan
• Aeroplani, 1909, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan
• Versi liberi Treves, 1913, Milan
• L'Elisse e la spirale, 1915, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan
• Bel canto, 1916, Studio Editoriale, Lombardo
• Popolo, canta così! 1920, Facchi, Milan
• Poema dei quarantanni, 1922, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan
• Canti per le chiese vuote, 1930, Foligno Campitelli
• Poema di radioonde, 1940
• Atomiche, 1950

References

• Christa Baumgarth: Geschichte des Futurismus. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1966.
• Evelyn Benesch, Ingried Brugger: Futurismus – Radikale Avantgarde. Ausstellungskatalog. Mailand 2003, ISBN 88-202-1602-7.
• Monica Biasiolo: „Il «Gesamtkunstwerk» futurista. L’esempio di Paolo Buzzi“, in: B. Van den Bossche/S. Bonciarelli (a cura di), La collaborazione artistica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore 2014, S. 41–52.
• Monica Biasiolo: „Garibaldi und die poesia civile Paolo Buzzis“, in: M. Föcking/M. Schwarze (Hg.), Una gente di lingua, di memorie e di cor... Italienische Literatur und schwierige nationale Einheit von Machiavelli bis Wu Ming, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag 2015, S. 89–104.
• Maurizio Calvesi: Futurismus. München 1975.