Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa

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

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

, Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

, and select Greek and Latin authors.

From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies

Italian Chamber of Deputies

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 of the Italian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of the PCI

Italian Communist Party

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Death

Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergency surgery

Surgery

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 for an abdominal aneurysm. He was 79.

Works

• Capriccio italiano, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1963
• Il Giuoco dell'Oca, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1967
• Laborintus, Magenta, Varese, 1956
• Opus metricum, Rusconi e Paolazzi, Milano, 1960 (contains Laborintus ed Erotopaegnia)
• Triperuno, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964 (contains Opus metricum e Purgatorio de l'Inferno)
• Natural Stories # 1 (Drama Series 16), Guernica, Toronto, 1998. Translated from: Storie Naturali #1, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971.