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Edition 19 (1948) Winner
Aldo Palazzeschi
アルド・パラッツェスキ
Arudo Parattsesuki
Aliases:
Aldo Giurlani
Pen Names:
Aldo Palazzeschi（Pen name used in literary career (maternal grandmother's maiden name)）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1885-02-02 （Florence）
- Died
- 1974-08-17 （Rome） age 89
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Florence (birthplace) → Rome (from 1941)
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Novelist, Journalist, Essayist
- Active Years
- 1905-1974
- Affiliations
- Lacerba, Pegaso, Pan, Il Selvaggio
- Influenced By
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Influenced
- Neoavanguardia writers
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Il codice di Perelà (Man of Smoke)
1911 Futurist novelA fantastical novel featuring a smoke-made man Perelà, allegorizing the poet's lightness.
LeggerezzaHumourFuturism
Adaptations
- [Opera] Perelà, uomo di fumo / Pascal Dusapin (2003)
Bibliography
- I cavalli bianchi (1905)
- Lanterna (1907)
- Poemi (1909)
- L'incendiario (1910)
- Il codice di Perelà (1911)
- Il controdolore (1914)
- Due imperi... mancati (1920)
- L'interrogatorio della contessa Maria (1925)
- La piramide (1926)
- Stampe dell'Ottocento (1932)
- Le sorelle Materassi (1934)
- Il palio dei buffi (1936)
- Allegoria di novembre (1943)
- Difetti 1905 (1947)
- I fratelli Cuccoli (1948)
- Bestie del '900 (1951)
- Roma (1953)
- Scherzi di gioventù (1956)
- Il buffo integrale (1966)
- Il doge (1967)
- Cuor mio (1968)
- Stefanino (1969)
- Storia di un'amicizia (1971)
- Via delle cento stelle (1972)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Humorous and satirical styleGrotesque and fantastic elementsAnti-traditional Futurist approach
- Recurring Motifs
- Lightness (leggerezza)Buffoonery and circusParodies of death and nature
Legacy
Important Italian Futurist poet and novelist, influencing neoavanguardia writers with grotesque and fantastic elements.
Museums
- Centro di Studi Aldo Palazzeschi Florence
In Popular Culture
- Novel Il codice di Perelà adapted into opera Perelà, uomo di fumo by Pascal Dusapin in 2003.
Trivia
- Real surname is Giurlani; Palazzeschi is maternal grandmother's maiden name used as pen name.
- Studied accounting but abandoned for theater.
- Joined Futurism but rejected its political ideology.