Giuseppe Marchetti

Giuseppe Marchetti (10 November 1934 – 30 August 2021) was an Italian literary critic and journalist.

Biography He studied at the universities of Urbino and Rome, where he attended lectures by Giuseppe Ungaretti.

After working for several years as a teacher, in 1965 he won a competition at the Palatine Library of Parma for a civil service position. From then on, he lived in Parma, where starting in 1967 he served as a literary critic for the Gazzetta di Parma.

In 1994, he was invited by Indro Montanelli, who had just left Il Giornale, to edit the literary section of his new daily newspaper, La Voce; however, it ceased publication in April of the following year. He served as a literary critic for other newspapers as well, including Il Giorno, Messaggero Veneto – Giornale del Friuli, and Il Giornale d'Italia.

In 1978, his first novel was published, La passivazione, which was a finalist for debut works at the Viareggio Prize; it was later rewritten and revised for the publisher Diabasis under the title La noia fitta delle primavere. He wrote the novella Una grande innocenza for MUP (Monte Università Parma) editions. In 1980, he authored an essay on Renzo Ildebrando Bocchi, titled Renzo Ildebrando Bocchi tra amore e dolore. In 1991, he published Poesia parmigiana nel '900 through the Parma-based publisher Battei.

He collaborated with literary journals, including Nuova Antologia, Paragone, Nuovi Argomenti, Il Ponte, and Letture. He published essays on Guido Piovene, Antonio Delfini, Ardengo Soffici, Clemente Rebora, and modern Russian literature. He edited the edition of Lettere familiari by Lorenzo Magalotti for the Classici SugarCo series, as well as a series of introductions for Parma writers including Alberta Bigagli and Paola Casoli. He also edited the anthology volume Pärma, which included excerpts by authors such as Renzo Pezzani and Alfredo Zerbini.

In 2006, he compiled the biographical entries for Emilian writers in the Dizionario Bompiani degli Autori, published by Bompiani.

In 2007, his work Centolibrinovecento was published by MUP.

In December 2014, Fedelo's editrice published his work dedicated to the life and career of Parma poet Attilio Bertolucci, titled Attilio Bertolucci. Storia di un poeta.

In 2015, Diabasis published the volume Testi e Pretesti, featuring a preface by Claudio Magris.

In 2018, he published his last volume dedicated to late 20th and early 21st-century Parma writers: Narratori parmigiani fra i due secoli (ISBN 9788881038930), published by Diabasis, which retraces thirty years of local literature through its authors, from Davide Barilli to Beppe Sebaste, Valerio Varesi, Luca Cantarelli, Paolo Nori, Guido Conti, Gene Gnocchi, and Maria Pia Quintavalla.