Franco Loi Explained

Franco Loi
Birth Date:	January 21, 1930
Birth Place:	Genova, Italy
Death Date:	January 4, 2021
Death Place:	Milano
Nationality:	Italian
Field:	poetry

Franco Loi (21 January 1930 – 4 January 2021) was an Italian poet, writer, and essayist.^{[1] [2] [3]} He was born in Genoa, and died in Milan, aged 90.He made his debut in 1973 as a poet using dialect and had a good success with the work I cart, and the following year, 1974, with Poems of love. In 1975, the poet proved to have reached complete maturity of expression with the poem Stròlegh, published by Einaudi with a preface by Franco Fortini.

In 1978, Einaudi published the collection Teater and in 1981 the work L'Angel followed by Edizioni San Marco dei Giustiniani. Also in 1981, thanks to the collection L'aria, he won the "Lanciano" national prize for dialectal poetry.In 2005, he published L'aria de la memoria for Einaudi, in which he collected all the poems written between 1973 and 2002.

He was part of the fourth generation of Lombard line.

Works

• I cart, Milano, Edizioni Trentadue, 1973.
• Poesie d'amore, incisioni di Ernesto Treccani, San Giovanni Valdarno (Firenze), Edizioni Il Ponte, 1974.
• Stròlegh, introduzione Franco Fortini, Torino, Einaudi, 1975.
• Teater, Torino, Einaudi, 1978.
• L'angel, Genova, Edizioni San Marco dei Giustiniani, 1981.
• Lünn, Firenze, Il Ponte, 1982.
• Bach, Milano, Scheiwiller, 1986.
• Liber, Milano, Garzanti, 1988.
• Memoria, Mondovì (CN), Boetti & C., 1991.
• Poesie, Roma, Fondazione Piazzola, 1992.
• Umber, Lecce, Piero Manni, 1992.
• Poesie, Roma, Fondazione Marino Piazzolla, 1992.
• L'angel, in 4 parti, Milano, Mondadori, 1994.
• Arbur, Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali, 1994.
• Verna, Roma, Empiria, 1997.
• Album di famiglia, Falloppio (CO), Lietocolle, 1998.
• Amur del temp, Milano, Crocetti Editore, 1999.
• Isman, Milano, Einaudi, 2002.
• Aquabella, Novara, Interlinea edizioni, 2004.
• El bunsai, Milano, Il ragazzo innocuo, 2005
• La lûs del ver, Milano, Quaderni di Orfeo, 2006.
• Scultà, Milano, Il ragazzo innocuo, 2006
• I niul, Novara, Interlinea edizioni, 2012.
• Nel scûr, Milano, Quaderni di Orfeo, 2013.
• La torre, Edizioni San Marco dei Giustiniani, Genova, 2020.
• L'angel, Mondadori, Milano, 2022, collana Lo Specchio.

Notes and References

1. Web site: È morto il poeta milanese Franco Loi, aveva 90 anni. Paolo Di Stefano. Corriere della Sera. 4 January 2021. 4 January 2021. Italian.
2. Web site: E' morto Franco Loi, la poesia contro il disincanto. 4 January 2021. la Repubblica.
3. Web site: Loi: con la sua poesia il dialetto milanese diventa lingua universale/ Adnkronos. 4 January 2021. 5 January 2021. 7 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210107191932/https://www.fortuneita.com/2021/01/04/loi-con-la-sua-poesia-il-dialetto-milanese-diventa-lingua-universale-adnkronos/. dead.