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Ernesto Calzavara (1907–2000) was an Italian poet and essayist.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Treviso in 1907. He comes from a family originally from here. In 1931 he graduated in Law in Padua (he had studied for a year at the University of Rome); two years later he moved to Milan where he successfully began his career as a lawyer. His first work was a legal publication, republished several times, "I capisaldi del codice civile", Vallardi, Milan, 1942.[1]
The bond with his native land remained very strong: in Treviso his fixed point was his father's house, a beautiful eighteenth-century Venetian city located on the border between the city and the countryside, where he returned whenever he could. And the Marca Trevigiana was to be the starting point and the natural outlet for what from the beginning revealed itself to be his strong poetic streak, which led him to say: "The lawyer must support the poet". He published and edited the re-edition of an ancient poetic text from the Marca Trevigiana: Anselmino da Montebelluna, "El planto de la Verzene Maria", All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, Milan, 1950 (second edition in 1996, with a preface by Cesare Segre).[2][3]
He died in Stra in August 2000.
Poetic style
[edit]Calzavara wrote several works in the Venetian dialect, a prestigious native language for him. The first poems date back to the second half of the 40s. They are poems in language, three short poems published privately and out of commerce in a numbered edition of one hundred copies.[4]
Calzavara produced few literary works in Italian. At the beginning of the 50s he began his literary production entirely in Venetian dialect. Experimentation and formal research deepen with the following collections: "Come se Infralogie", preface by Cesare Segre, Milan, All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1974; Cembalo scrivano. "Exercises for typing", Milan, All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1977; "Analfabeto", Milan, Società di poesia, 1979; "Le ave parole", introduction by Stefano Agosti, Milan, Garzanti, 1984. The work entitled "te conto in veneto" is famous, a Venetian production linked to the telling and reporting of old riddles and games of the Venetian tradition during the Serenissima.
Below is reported the short poem "the hen"[5]:
La galina
"Va su par la scaléta, galina,
pian pian in punèr,
sola sola a far l’ovo
in pensièr, de scondo’n.
Va su co’ tuti i me pensièri,
ovi sensa rosa né bianco, vo’di.
Va su galina, va su".
References
[edit]- ^ "Se no ghe fusse - Ernesto Calzavara". trevisoemozioni.it (in Italian). 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
- ^ "Ernesto CALZAVARA". Italian Poetry (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-07.
- ^ "Calzavara, Ernesto - Enciclopedia". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-07.
- ^ "Ernesto Calzavara, All author books".
- ^ "Ernesto CALZAVARA". Italian Poetry (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-07.