Massimiliano Chiamenti
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Massimiliano Chiamenti was an Italian poet
and philologist.
He lived in Bologna
, where he taught at the "Liceo delle Scienze Sociali Laura Bassi
and at the "Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da vinci"".
Since 1993, he published a number of collections of poems: Telescream (Cultura Duemila, 1993), User-friendly (David Seagull productions, 1994), x/7 (Dadamedia, 1995), p't (post) (Gazebo, 1997), Schedule (City Lights
Italia, 1998), Maximilien (City Lights
Italia, 1999), e (self-publishing
, 2000), songs of being and not being here (self-publishing
, 2001), 30 slide poems (self-publishing
, 2002), rhythms 2003 (self-publishing
, 2003), le teknostorie (Edizioni Segreti di Pulcinella, 2003, Zona, 2005), free love (Giraldi, 2007), adel & c. (Fermenti, 2008), paperback writer (Gattogrigio Editore, 2009) evvivalamorte (Le Càriti, 2011), and the collection of short stories Scherzi? (Giraldi, 2009). His poems, dark and humorous, have a narrative flow, are written as free verse
, their main themes being same sex love
, contemporary forms of neo
-barbarism
, and social marginality. He received from Edoardo Sanguineti
the poetry prize "Città di Corciano
" in 1995. Some of his poems appeared in the journals "Alias", "Argo
", "Forum Italicum", "Gradiva
", "Idioteca", "Italian Poetry Review", "mumble:" and "Semicerchio".
He translated into Italian, as a commission for City Lights
, poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
, Ed Sanders
, Anne Waldman
and Philip Lamantia
.
As a philologist, he wrote contributions in the fields of Romance philology and Italian philology, mainly on texts by Dante Alighieri
, Giacomo Leopardi
and Pier Vittorio Tondelli
. His many scholarly works include the book Dante Alighieri traduttore (Le Lettere, 1995), where Dante
's Latin
, French
, and Provençal
sources are investigated, and articles on Dante
's character Jacopo Rusticucci ("Lingua Nostra", 1997), and the attribution
to Dante
of the trilingual poem "Ai faus ris" ("Dante Studies", 1998, "L'Alighieri", 2009).
He collaborated with the on-line Early Italian Vocabulary for the Accademia della Crusca
http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/. Chiamenti provided the critical editions of Pietro Alighieri's Comentum on The Divine Comedy
(University of Arizona Press
, 2002) and of the Chansons of the French
trouvère
Colin Muset
(Carocci, 2005).
Since 1990, he was active as a reader/performer of his poems, often while accompanying musicians.
Much of his work can be read at http://www.nuovorinascimento.org.
A poem of his, with music, can be listened to at http://www.royplay.com/profile.asp?type=7&profile_id=07ae4a56b781bc4452f59db34f45228b&id_audio=583.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and philologist.
He lived in Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
, where he taught at the "Liceo delle Scienze Sociali Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a university in Europe.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and tutored for seven years in her teens by Gaetano Tacconi...
and at the "Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da vinci"".
Since 1993, he published a number of collections of poems: Telescream (Cultura Duemila, 1993), User-friendly (David Seagull productions, 1994), x/7 (Dadamedia, 1995), p't (post) (Gazebo, 1997), Schedule (City Lights
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
Italia, 1998), Maximilien (City Lights
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
Italia, 1999), e (self-publishing
Self-publishing
Self-publishing is the publication of any book or other media by the author of the work, without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. The author is responsible and in control of entire process including design , formats, price, distribution, marketing & PR...
, 2000), songs of being and not being here (self-publishing
Self-publishing
Self-publishing is the publication of any book or other media by the author of the work, without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. The author is responsible and in control of entire process including design , formats, price, distribution, marketing & PR...
, 2001), 30 slide poems (self-publishing
Self-publishing
Self-publishing is the publication of any book or other media by the author of the work, without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. The author is responsible and in control of entire process including design , formats, price, distribution, marketing & PR...
, 2002), rhythms 2003 (self-publishing
Self-publishing
Self-publishing is the publication of any book or other media by the author of the work, without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. The author is responsible and in control of entire process including design , formats, price, distribution, marketing & PR...
, 2003), le teknostorie (Edizioni Segreti di Pulcinella, 2003, Zona, 2005), free love (Giraldi, 2007), adel & c. (Fermenti, 2008), paperback writer (Gattogrigio Editore, 2009) evvivalamorte (Le Càriti, 2011), and the collection of short stories Scherzi? (Giraldi, 2009). His poems, dark and humorous, have a narrative flow, are written as free verse
Free verse
Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free. Free Verse displays some elements of form...
, their main themes being same sex love
Love
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
, contemporary forms of neo
Neo
Neo is a prefix from the ancient Greek word for young "neos" which derived from the Proto-Indo European word for new "néwos".Neo may refer to:* Neo , the protagonist of the Matrix film series...
-barbarism
Primitive culture
In older anthropology texts and discussions, the term "primitive culture" is used to refer to a society that is believed to lack cultural, technological, or economic sophistication/development...
, and social marginality. He received from Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....
the poetry prize "Città di Corciano
Corciano
Corciano is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 8 km west of Perugia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 17,008 and an area of 63.7 km²...
" in 1995. Some of his poems appeared in the journals "Alias", "Argo
Argo
In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece. It was named after its builder, Argus.-Legend:...
", "Forum Italicum", "Gradiva
Gradiva
Gradiva is a neo-Attic Roman bas-relief in the manner of Greek works of the fourth century BCE, depicting a young robed woman who lifts the hems of her skirts to stride forward. The relief is in the Vatican Museums...
", "Idioteca", "Italian Poetry Review", "mumble:" and "Semicerchio".
He translated into Italian, as a commission for City Lights
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers...
, Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher and has been a longtime member of the band The Fugs. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and Hippie generations.-Biography:...
, Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
and Philip Lamantia
Philip Lamantia
Philip Lamantia was an American poet and lecturer. Lamantia's visionary poems were ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic which explored the subconscious world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.-Biography:...
.
As a philologist, he wrote contributions in the fields of Romance philology and Italian philology, mainly on texts by Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
, Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...
and Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Pier Vittorio Tondelli was an Italian writer who wrote a small but influential body of work. He was born in Correggio, a small town in the province of Emilia-Romagna in Italy and died in nearby Reggio Emilia of AIDS...
. His many scholarly works include the book Dante Alighieri traduttore (Le Lettere, 1995), where Dante
DANTE
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's Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, and Provençal
Provence
Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
sources are investigated, and articles on Dante
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's character Jacopo Rusticucci ("Lingua Nostra", 1997), and the attribution
Attribution
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to Dante
DANTE
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of the trilingual poem "Ai faus ris" ("Dante Studies", 1998, "L'Alighieri", 2009).
He collaborated with the on-line Early Italian Vocabulary for the Accademia della Crusca
Accademia della Crusca
The Accademia della Crusca is an Italian society for scholars and Italian linguists and philologists established in Florence. After the Accademia Cosentina, it is the oldest Italian academy still in existence...
http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/. Chiamenti provided the critical editions of Pietro Alighieri's Comentum on The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature...
(University of Arizona Press
University of Arizona Press
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, 2002) and of the Chansons of the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
trouvère
Trouvère
Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...
Colin Muset
Colin Muset
Colin Muset was an Old French trouvère and a native of Lorraine. He made his living in the Champagne by travelling from castle to castle singing songs of his own composition and playing the vielle. These are not confined to the praise of courtly love that formed the usual topic of the trouvères,...
(Carocci, 2005).
Since 1990, he was active as a reader/performer of his poems, often while accompanying musicians.
Much of his work can be read at http://www.nuovorinascimento.org.
A poem of his, with music, can be listened to at http://www.royplay.com/profile.asp?type=7&profile_id=07ae4a56b781bc4452f59db34f45228b&id_audio=583.