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Guido Ceronetti

グイード・チェロネッティ

Guido Ceronetti

Pen Names: Mehmet Gayuk（Pseudonym used for the poetry collection Il gineceo）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1927-08-24 （Turin）
Died
2018-09-13 （Cetona） age 91
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Turin → Cetona

Career

Occupations
poet, philosopher, novelist, translator, journalist, playwright
Active Years
1955-2018
Affiliations
La Repubblica, La Stampa, Radio Radicale
Influenced By
Emil Cioran

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Il silenzio del corpo

1979 non-fiction

Materials for the study of medicine. Emil Cioran dedicated a chapter to it.

bodysilence

La carta è stanca

1976 essay

Essay collection.

La vita apparente

1982 essay

Essays.

Bibliography

  • Difesa della luna e altri argomenti di miseria terrestre
  • Aquilegia
  • La carta è stanca
  • Il silenzio del corpo
  • La vita apparente
  • Un viaggio in Italia, 1981–1983
  • Albergo Italia
  • Pensieri del tè
  • L'occhiale malinconico
  • La lanterna del filosofo

Translations by Author

  • Epigrammi (Martial)
  • I Salmi
  • Le poesie (Catullus)
  • Qohelet o l'Ecclesiaste
  • Le Satire (Juvenalis)
  • Il Libro di Giobbe
  • Cantico dei cantici
  • Il Libro del Profeta Isaia

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Poetic and philosophical style
Recurring Motifs
silencebodymelancholy

Health

  • bronchopneumonia
    2018年
    Cause of death.

Legacy

Italian multifaceted writer who founded the Theater of the Sensitive in 1970. His works are archived at the Cantonal Library of Lugano.

Museums

  • Cantonal Library of Lugano Lugano

Archives

  • Cantonal Library of Lugano

Trivia

  • Founded the Theater of the Sensitive in 1970.