Raffaello Baldini


Raffaello Baldini was an Italian writer and poet. His Ad nòta won the Premio Bagutta.

Biography

In the immediate postwar period, the young poets from Santarcangelo gathered at the Caffe Trieste, the bar owned by Baldini's parents. These students rechristened the bar "the Circle of Wisdom". This gave Baldini the opportunity of getting to know Tonino Guerra, Nino Pedretti, Gianni Fucci, Flavio Nicolini, Rina Macrelli and other artists from the neighbouring countryside.
He graduated in philosophy from the University of Bologna then spent some years teaching.
In 1955 he moved to Milan to work as a writer, and then as a journalist on Panorama. In 1967 he published Autotem with Bompiani, a short opera satirising how cars are seen as a fetish. He self-published a collection of dialectical poetry É solitèri in 1976 in Imola. He published La nàiva in 1982. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1988 with Furistír and the Bagutta Prize in 1995 with Ad nòta.
He also wrote for theatre. He wrote a monologue Zitti tutti!, published by Ubulibri in 1993. Ravenna Theatre produced the show Furistír, directed and adapted by Marco Martinelli, which was created as a fusion of eight collections of Baldini's poetry.

Works

Collections of poetry