Pierluigi Cappello

Italian poet

Pierluigi Cappello
Born	(1967-08-08)8 August 1967 Gemona del Friuli, Italy
Died	1 October 2017(2017-10-01) (aged 50)
Occupation	Poet
Awards	Viareggio Prize (2010) Premio Montale (2004) Raiziss de/Palchi Fellowship (2015)

Pierluigi Cappello (8 August 1967 – 1 October 2017) was an Italian poet.^[1]^[2]^[3] He was born in Gemona del Friuli, and raised in Chiusaforte.

Cappello won the 2010 Viareggio-Rèpaci prize for poetry with his collection Mandate a dire all'imperatore.^[4] His other prizes include the Premio Montale for Dittico (Liboà editore in Dogliani, 2004), the Premio Bagutta and Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa for Assetto Di Volo (Crocetti Editore, Milan 2006) and the Premio Terzani for his prose work, Questa libertà. In 2013 BUR Rizzoli published his selected poems in the volume Azzurro Elementare. Poesie 1992-2010, and, in 2017, a group of thirty new poems, Stato Di Quiete. English translations of his work have appeared in Poetry, PN Review, AGNI, Asymptote, Narrative Magazine, and several other journals, and were awarded the 2015 Raiziss and de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.^[5]

Cappello and his family were victims of the 6.5 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy on May 6, 1976. As a result, the family was relocated to a prefab community provided by Austria, where Cappello remained for most of his life. At age sixteen he suffered a tragic motorbike crash, which saw him using a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

In 2014 Cappello was named a beneficiary of the Legge Bacchelli—a guarantee of lifetime financial support from the Italian government for artists of merit.^[6]

References

^ Colin, Gianluigi (9 August 2010). "Sono un poeta fragile. Ma libero" [I am a poet fragile. But free]. Corriere Della Sera (in Italian).
^ Gavagnin, G (2003). "Gli scrittori e la norma: intervistea Raffaello Baldini, Pierluigi Cappello, Luciano Cecchinel, Amedeo Giacominie Ida Vallerugo" (PDF). Quaderns d'Italià (8/9): 123–132.
^ Johnson, John R.L. (2001). "The Social Context of Literary Production in Post-War Friuli: Authors, Readers, and the Transformation of the Cultural Fieldn". Italian Culture. 19: 85–110. doi:10.1179/itc.2001.19.1.85.
^ "Al Viareggio targato Einaudi Lagioia batte Lilin per 2 voti". La Repubblica. 28 August 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
^ "Go Tell It to the Emperor: Selected Poems by Pierluigi Cappello". poets.org. archive.org. Archived from the original on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
^ "Le poesie 'bambine' di Pierluigi Cappello" [Pierluigi Cappello's poems for little girls]. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Cappello - al quale nel 2014 è stato assegnato l'assegno straordinario vitalizio della cosiddetta 'Legge Bacchelli [Cappello, who in 2014 was awarded the extraordinary life allowance of the so-called Legge Bacchelli...]

Recipients of the Viareggio Prize

1930s

Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
Corrado Tumiati (1931)
Antonino Foschini (1932)
Achille Campanile (1933)
Raffaele Calzini (1934)
Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
Guelfo Civinini (1937)
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)

1940s

Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)

1950s

Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)

1960s

Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)

1970s

Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)

1980s

Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)

1990s

Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)

2000s

Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)

2010s

Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)

2020s

Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)