Born
on February 15, 1874 in Milan, Paolo Buzzi went on to study law, beginning his
administrative career as the Secretary General of the Province of Milan.
In 1886, Buzzi wrote a play. His first
poetry offerings were linked to the Italian classicism of Leopardi and
Carducci, Buzzi titling his first collection of poetry Poesie leopardiane, a work published in 1898.
In 1905 Buzzi met the Italian futurist, F.
T. Marinetti, soon after joining with the Futurist movement. The same year he won
a poetry competition held by Marinetti’s and Sem Benelli’s futurist-based
magazine Poesia with a long work
written in prose titled "L'esilio" (“The Exile”) published in the
journal in 1906. In 1909 Buzzi published his first major Futurist collection of
poetry, Aeroplani, publsihed by that
magazine’s book-publishing arm in 1909. The 1912 Futurist anthology contained
several of his poems as well as his essay on free verse.
Buzzi’s prose fiction, L’Ellisse e la spirale (The Elipse and
the Spiral) followed in 1915, a work in the science fiction genre in which the
poet employed Marinetti’s idea of “parole in libertà." Several other books
of poetry, fiction, plays, and even films followed, including a war diary, Conflagration (Epic
parolibera) 1915-1918, that employed collages and, once again, “free word
associations,” a book which remained unpublished until after his death.
In later years, however, Buzzi abandoned
Futurism, returning to more classic poetic works. The poet also translated
several works into Italian, including poems by Baudelaire.
Buzzi died on February 18, 1956.
BOOKS OF POETRY
Poesie leopardiane (Milan: Galli e Raimondi, 1898); Aeroplani
(Milan: Edizioni di “Poesia,” 1909); Versi
liberi Treves (Milan, 1913); Bell
cano (Lombardy: Studio Editoriale, 1916); Popolo, canta così (Milan: Facchi, 1920); Poema dei quarantanni (Milan: Edizioni di “Poesia,” 1922); Canti
per le chiese vuote (Foligno Campitelli, 1930); Poema di radioonde (1940); Atomiche
(1950).
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