Luigi Meneghello
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Luigi Meneghello | |
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| Born | 1922 |
| Died | June 26, 2007 |
Luigi Meneghello (born 1922, dead 2007) was an Italian writer and scholar.
Biography
Born in Malo, small town in the countryside near Vicenza, in 1922, Meneghello entered in 1938 the University of Padua to study philosophy. From 1940 to 1942 worked for Paduan newspaper Il Veneto. In the early Forties, he had his first contacts with anti-fascism and, after a short time in the Army, entered the Partito d'azione and became active in the resistance movement.
In 1945 Meneghello graduated with a thesis about the philosophy of Benedetto Croce. In 1947 he moved to the University of Reading (England) with a grant awarded by the British Council. In Reading he was soon offered a chair in Italian Literature; he taught for more than thirty years in Reading, where he founded and directed a Department of Italian Studies.
In 1948 he married Katia Bleier, a survivor of Auschwitz and his wife till her death in 2004.
After an intense academic activity and as translator (often with the pseudonym Ugo Varnai), in 1963 he published his first book, part novel part autobiography, Libera nos a Malo, about the narrow-minded but vital milieu of his home town, Malo. The title is a pun on the Latin words for deliver us from evil and the name of the town. One year later he published I piccoli maestri, about his experiences in the Resistance (a film version with the same title was directed in 1998 by Daniele Luchetti).
In the Sixties and Seventies wrote both fiction, and essays and articles for the Times Literary Supplement, La Stampa, and other English and Italian newspapers and magazines.
In 1980 Meneghello left the University of Reading, to live in London and in Thiene (near Vicenza), where he moved permanently in 2004 after his wife's death. He died there in June 2007.
Bibliography
- Libera nos a Malo (1963)
- I piccoli maestri (1964)
- Pomo Pero (1974)
- Fiori italiani (1976)
- L’acqua di Malo (1986)
- Il Tremaio. Note sull’interazione tra lingua e dialetto nelle scritture letterarie (1986)
- Jura (1987)
- Bau-Sète! (1988)
- Leda e la schioppa (1989)
- Rivarotta (1989)
- Che fate quel giovane? (1990)
- Maredè, Maredè (1991)
- Il dispatrio (1993)
- Promemoria (1994)
- Il Turbo e il Chiaro (1996)
- La materia di Reading (1997)
- Le Carte. Volume I: Anni sessanta (1999)
- Le Carte. Volume II: Anni settanta (2000)
- Le Carte. Volume III: Anni ottanta (2001)
- Trapianti. Dall'inglese al vicentino (2002)
- Quaggiù nella biosfera. Tre saggi sul lievito poetico delle scritture (2004)
- La materia di Reading e altri reperti (2005)
References
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- Foreword from Meneghello, Luigi (2006). Tullio De Mauro (ed.). Fiori italiani--con un mazzo di nuovi Fiori. Milan: Rizzoli. ISBN 88-17-01252-1. Template:It icon
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