Background
Luzi, Mario was born on October 20, 1914 in Castello, Italy.
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Mario Luzi is the foremost Italian poet of his generation. He ranks first as an interpreter of life. He owes much to ancestral ties and to the Tuscan landscape of his youth and middle years. He is at home with such rational philosophers as Bertrand Russell and Adorno (Theodor Wiesengrund). Essentially, he is an apolitical humanist. Here are presented his classic "In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis," along with a selection of other of his poems, translated into English by I. L. Salomon.
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Luzi, Mario was born on October 20, 1914 in Castello, Italy.
In Florence he studied at the liceo classico Galileo, and also in Florence he obtained his degree in French literature with a final dissertation about François Mauriac.
Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi"s parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Castello, where he started his primary school. This was an important period for Luzi.
He met poets such as Piero Bigongiari, Alessandro Parronchi, Carlo Bo, Leone Traverso, and the critic Oreste Macrì.
His first book, Louisiana barca, was published in 1935 and in 1938 he started to teach in high schools in the cities of Parma, San Miniato and Rome. In 1940, he published Avvento notturno.
In 1945 he went back to Florence and there he taught at the liceo scientifico. In 1946 he published Un brindisi e Quaderno gotico, in issue 1 of Inventario, in 1952 Onore del vero, Principe del deserto e Studio su Mallarmé.
In 1955 he began teaching French literature at Florence University in the facoltà di scienze politiche (political studies institute).
Between 1963 and 1983, he published many books such as Nel magma (1963).;, Reportage (1985). Ultimately never awarded, when asked for his thoughts by one reporter on his fellow countryman Dario Fo"s 1997 success he slammed the phone down: "I"ll say only this.
I"ve just about had it up to here!" His last book, L"avventura della dualità, was published in 2003.
In October 2004, he was appointed to the Italian Senate as a senator-for-life by President of the Republic Ciampi. He died in Florence, just some months later, on 28 February 2005.
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Married Elena Monazi, 1942.