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Antonio Barolini

アントニオ・バロリーニ

Antonio Barolini

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1910-05-29 (Vicenza, Italy)
Died
1971-01-21 (Rome, Italy) age 60
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Religion
Catholicism

Career

Occupations
Writer, Poet, Journalist
Active Years
1930-1971
Influenced By
Catholic tradition and religious sensibility, Venetian regional culture and maritime heritage

Awards

Premio Saint Vincent (Journalism)
1953
Result: 受賞
Premio Bagutta
1960
Work: Elegie di Croton
Result: 共受賞 (co-winner)
Premio Selezione Campiello
1963
Work: Le notti della paura
Result: 受賞
Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa (Poetry)
1966
Category: 詩
Result: 受賞
Premio "Amelia"
1966
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La gaia gioventù

1938 Poetry

A collection of poems combining youthful sensibility with religious elements, reflecting regional and familial themes of the Veneto.

youthreligious sensibilityregional identity

Elegie di Croton

1959 Poetry

A poetry collection inspired by his time in the United States, addressing loss, prayer, and solitude abroad.

lossprayerexile/solitude
Translations
  • Croton Elegies, trans. Helen Barolini (1991)

Our Last Family Countess and Related Stories

1960 Short stories

A collection of short stories set in small towns of the Veneto, often dealing with moral and religious questions.

moralityreligionlocal community

Le notti della paura

1967 Novel/Novella

A work thematizing anxiety and fear; associated with the Premio Selezione Campiello selection in the 1960s.

fearpersonal conflict

Bibliography

  • La gaia gioventù e altri versi agli amici (1938)
  • Il meraviglioso giardino (1941)
  • Viaggio col veliero San Spiridione (1946)
  • Elegie di Croton (1959)
  • Our Last Family Countess and Related Stories (1960)
  • Le notti della paura (1967)
  • La memoria di Stefano (1969)

Translations of Works

  • Croton Elegies, trans. Helen Barolini (1991)
  • Our Last Family Countess and Related Stories (English edition, 1960)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyrical style with moral and religious concernsdetailed regionalist description
Recurring Motifs
sea and voyage imageryprayer and mourningsmall-town ethics and solitude

Legacy

Antonio Barolini is remembered as a 20th-century Italian poet, writer, and journalist whose work—marked by religious and ethical themes—has been translated into English and commemorated in his native Vicenza.

Academic Societies

  • Italian literary study groups

Archives

  • Family papers and manuscripts (location uncertain; possibly held by family)

Trivia

  • His father Giuseppe Barolini died in 1919 from an illness contracted during World War I.
  • During WWII he was sentenced in absentia by the Italian Social Republic for his antifascist stance and spent 20 months in hiding.
  • In the 1960s he directed the RAI literary television program L'approdo.
  • Married American writer Helen Barolini in 1950; their daughter Teodolinda Barolini became a noted Dante scholar.
  • A middle school in Vicenza is named after him.