Background
He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini.
literary critic translator writer poet
He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini.
University of Fribourg.
He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona. Giorgio Orelli was a post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation.
Called the Tuscan from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Lincolnshire" of "sober moral realism".
He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura).
Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. Un giorno della vita, Milano, Lerici, 1960.
Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.