Diego Valeri

Diego Valeri (25 January 1887, Piove di Sacco - 28 November 1976) was an Italian poet, teacher, translator and literary critic.

Valeri was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and Alleanza della cultura. In 1967 he received the Viareggio Prize.

Biography Valeri was born in Piove di Sacco on 25 January 1887. He attended the University of Padua, where he studied under philologist Vincenzo Crescini. He graduated in 1908 with a thesis on the impact of French theater on the works of Paolo Ferrari. In 1913 he published his first works, Monodia d'amore and Le gaie tristezze. The following year Valeri traveled to Paris to attend a course at Sorbonne before returning to Italy to become a teacher.

During his time as a teacher Valeni was a columnist for the magazine Nuova Antologia, where he also published several translations and verses. He would later reprint these under the title Umana in 1916, Crisalide in 1919, and Ariele in 1924. These would later be collected as part of Poesie vecchie e nuove in 1939.

Valeri died in Rome on 27 November 1976. During his lifetime Valeri was a prolific poet and wrote over 300 poems in Italian and French; Valeri has stated that he has "sacrificed almost as many as I have saved".

Themes Valeri's work contains themes of everyday life and humanity. Per Gaetana Marrone, he also "wrote in French with the dual purpose of meeting Europe on its own terms and moving away from Italian regionalism, the latter motive putting him at odds with Italian cultural circles." Tempo che muore, Mondadori, Milan 1924 Il Campanellino, SEI, Turin 1928, 2ª ed., Società Editrice Internazionale, Turin 1930 Ave Maria (1935) with music by Lino Liviabella Scherzo e finale, Mondadori, Milan 1937 Trittico lirico su musica di Lino Liviabella: I) Tragico (Rosetta), II) Soave (Veneziana), III) Comico (Colloquio) (1937) Terzo tempo, Mondadori, Milan 1950 Metamorfosi dell'angelo, Milan 1956 Jeux de mots, Parigi 1956 Notte di Natale (1956) with music by Lino Liviabella Il flauto a due canne, Mondadori, Milan 1958 Poesie, Mondadori, Milan 1962 Verità di uno, Mondadori, Milan 1970 Sgelo, Mondadori, Milan 1967 Calle del vento, Mondadori, Milan 1975 Poesie inedite o "come", 1977 Poesie scelte (1910-1975), edited by Carlo della Corte, Milan, Mondadori, 1977 Il mio nome sul vento. Poesie 1908-1976, edited by Carlo Londero, Rovigo, Il Ponte del Sale, 2022

Studies and essays Poeti francesi del nostro tempo, Piacenza 1924 Montaigne, Rome 1925 Scrittori francesi, Milan 1937 Saggi e note di letteratura francese moderna, Florence, 1941 Littérature française, Milan 1949 Il simbolismo francese da Nerval a De Régnier, Padua, 1954

Various writings I colli Euganei, Florence 1932 Fantasie veneziane, Padua 1934, Milan 1953 Guida sentimentale di Venezia, Padua 1942 and Florence 1955 Città materna, Padua 1944 Le leggende del Gral, Turin 1944 Taccuino svizzero, Milan 1946

Theater Soregina, Venice 1958

Translations Mirella, by Mistral, Turin 1930 and 1944 La signora Bovary by Flaubert, Milan 1936 and 1951 Romanzi e racconti d'amore nel medio evo francese, Milan 1943 and 1944 Il rosso e il nero by Stendhal, Milan 1936 Il Vangelo di S. Luca, Venice, 1950 and 1955 Quaranta favole by La Fontaine, Florence 1952 Cinquanta poesie by Goethe, Milan 1951 Ifigenia in Tauride, Venice 1954 Conoscenza e incoscienza di Dio, Rome 1947 and Milan 1954 Lirici tedeschi, Milan 1959 Lirici francesi, Milan 1960