Marino Biondi

Biography

Marino Biondi is an associate professor of "History of Criticism and Literary History" at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Florence after being a researcher at the Italian Literature Chair at the Institute of Neolithic Languages ​​and Literature from 1 August 1980 until 'Academic year 1991-1992. His studies were mainly directed to the Ottoman-Ottoman area, between history of literature and culture, with particular attention to literary historiography. Among its many volumes: Le Lettere , edited by M. Biondi (Milan, Longanesi, 1974); Last year's biography of Giuseppe De Robertis (Santarcangelo di Romagna, Fara Editore, 1995); The "Examination of Consciousness". For a text story from the autograph to the press(Edited by M. Biondi and R. Greggi, with a critical essay by Ezio Raimondi, Cesena, Il Vicolo & Il Ponte Vecchio, 1996); Capriccio and conscience. Two centuries-old writers , Cesena, Publishing House «Il Ponte Vecchio», 1997. The history of culture in the magazine is directed by studies and volumes, such as the venture of the magazines of A. Hermet (Florence, Vallecchi, 1987); the Resultanze about the life and character of Gino Bianchi with an attachment Piero Jahier, with an introductory essay Petrification of a petty clerk (Florence, Vallecchi, 1987) and the essay "La Ronda" and rondismo (in vol. Literary history Italy, edited by A. Balduino, The Twentieth Century, Edited by G. Luti, T. II: From the 1920s to the Eighties , Padua, Piccin Nuova Libraria, 1993). At the political culture and the early twentieth century intellectuals, from Gramsci to Gobetti, by Lussier to Calamandrei, he has devoted several essays and a bibliography ( bibliographic guide to Gramsci , Presentation of R. Zangheri, Cesena, Libreria Adamo Bettini, 1977. Gramsci in Vienna , In "The Provincial Reader," in XI, 40th March, 1980; Political Writers in the Twentieth Century , by G. Luti, T. II, Padua, Piccin Nuova Libraria, 1993). Other studies on Gramsci, Piero and Franco Calamandrei, G. Degani, appeared in the journal: Piero Calamandrei, In "The Bridge", a. XLIII, n. 4-5, July-October 1987; Fathers and children , in "The Bridge", a. XLIV, n. 4-5, July-October 1988; Memories of political struggle. For a profile of Giannino Degani , in "The Crystal", a. XXX, nn. 1-2, 1988 and The birth of fascism in Reggio Emilia. Local sources of the regime in archival research by Giannino Degani , in «Historical Research», a. XXI, n. 56/58 April 1987. At the literature of the Great War I dedicated the essay La remembered the war (in 'Anthology Vieusseux "a. XX, n. 1-2, January-June, 1984) and volumes C. Betocchi, L' Year of Caporetto (postflation by M. Biondi, Florence, editions Pananti, 1984), A. Soffici,The Diaries of the Great War. Kobilek The retreat of unpublished Friuli Taccuini (edited by M. Biondi and MB Poggi, Florence, Vallecchi, 1986) and C. Malaparte, Viva Caporetto! The Revolt of the Damned Saints (edited by M. Biondi, Florence, Vallecchi, 1995. Malaparte: Portrait of the Things of Italy , by M. Biondi in "Inventory", Third Series, No. 2, 1995 ). He edited the volume Ardengo Soffici. A critical budget (Florence, Festina Lente, 1990). Cecchi dedicated the essay: Geometries and disorder on the chessboard of Cecchi , in "Otto / Novecento", a. XI, n. 3/4, May-August 1985. To explore aspects of fascist culture, from the culture of magazines to Mussolini's notebooks, from the cinema to the theater, is dedicated vol.Fascism and culture. Literature Arts and Entertainment of a Ventennium (edited by M. Biondi and A. Borsotti, Florence, Ponte alle Grazie, 1996). Within the "Valgimigliani Study Center" of St. Piero in Bagno (F / C), he contributed to the start of the edition plan for the works of Manara Valgimigli. Up to this point the editions of The Cloak of Cebète (1999) are reported ; Colleviti (2003); Brother Valfredo (2009). Another sector he has dealt with is the novel of the twentieth century, the modern classics from d'Annunzio to Svevo to Tozzi, the subject of which he dedicated his vol. Twentieth century. Stories and styles of the novel in Italy (Florence, Festina Lente, 1991). A monographic profile of Svevo was published in the twentieth centurythe Vallardi, where an essay on it is well out the historical avant-garde and Futurism ( Svevo and the historical avant-garde and Futurism , in literary history of Italy . New Edition of A. Balduino, The Twentieth Century , edited by G. Luti, T. I: From the beginning of the century to the First World War , Padua, Piccin Nuova Libraria, 1989). Among his latest volumes, they say: Faithful to critics. Geno Pampaloni and contemporary literature (Florence, Polistampa, 2000, which was awarded in 2001 the "Golden Flourish" for Saggistica); Writers and totalitarian myths. Malaparte Pratolini Silone (ivi, 2002); Prezzolini. Diary of a century, Bolzano, Cultural Center of South Tyrol, 2001; Florence Novecento. Mystical poets intellectuals , there, 2002; "Italians and foreigners." Studies and Letters , ivi, 2003; Novelties over time. Balance at the end of the century , ivi, 2004; Writers and Italian Identity (Florence, Polistampa, 2004); The culture of Prezzolini (ivi, 2005); The passions of the twentieth century. Writers and critics in Florence (Florence, Le Lettere, 2007); Renato Serra. History and historiography of critics (Rome, Editions of History and Literature, 2008); The tradition of the fatherland I Literature and Risorgimento from Vittorio Alfieri to Ferdinando Martini (ivi, 2009);The tradition of Fatherland II Carduccianism and history of Italy (ivi, 2010). He edited the volume, Vittorio Vettori, literary culture civilization and philosophy (Florence, Le Lettere, 2009), which was awarded the XXVII Prize Florence (2009). Fellini: the Italian dream. Fifty years of "The Sweet Life" (Cesena, Il Ponte Vecchio - Bonci Theater, 2010), essay on Italy's cinematic miracle, is his first film book. Chronicles. From Dante to Contemporaries (Florence, Le Lettere, 2011), is his latest volume of essays. He was lecturer at the Advanced Course in the Department of Italianism:Literary historiography of contemporaries. Space and boundaries of the novel. Literary narrative and other narratives between the twentieth and twentieth centuries (March 24-25, 1999); In National Literature and European Identity , with the report In front of the classics. Contemporary Writers and Tradition (January 20, 2003); In Pretesti literari: from page to canvas, screen, to score ... , the report From novel to film: "The conformist" by A. Moravia (January 23, 2004); In The Foreign, Exotic and Other in Italian and European Literature , by P. Orvieto, with the Report Themes and Problems of Italian Identity in Contemporary Storiography (April 1, 2005); inThe Classic in Modern . The classic in post-war culture: critical debate and textual exemplifications (March 31, 2006); In the places of literature , with the report on The subalpine capital in the stories of Fruttero & Lucentini (19 March 2007); In Exercises and Testimonies of Italian Classics by Dante to the Modern , section Exegetical Problems of Contemporary Fiction , with the report on "Il Gattopardo" in Lampedusa. Interpretations and commentary (2008). At the International Doctoral School in Italian Studies, Department of Italian Studies at the University of Florence, he held a seminar onItalian identity: myths and historiographic hypotheses (23 and 30 March 2007). At the same doctoral school he held a seminar in North and South. Risorgimento and antirisorgimento. Southern Secession in "Il Gattopardo" of Lampedusa and other novels (22 February 2008). At the same school he took part in the day dedicated to Pascolian biography issues , edited by Alice Cencetti (March 13, 2009) and on March 20, 2009 he performed the philosophical voices in "Voce" by Giuseppe Prezzolini (Croce and Gentle) . In the same field of the PhD school he has lectured on Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: story and novel. From "Rubé" (1921) to "The Living and the Dead" (1923)(Friday, March 5, 2010, 11 am-11pm). In the 2010-2011 PhD program, dedicated to Memory of the Classical , he held a lecture and conducted a seminar titled Opposite Classics: Contemporary Contemporary Dialogues (April 15, 2011, 9am to 1pm). In the 2011-2012 PhD program, devoted to Literature and Power , he will hold a lesson, Leonardo Sciascia: mafia and other contexts (Friday, May 11, 2012). He took part in the Equinox of Europe on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaties of Rome (March 25, 1957), with the Encounter: Voices of Florentine Culture on Europe (Florence, Gabinetto Vieusseux, March 24, 2007).From November 1972 to today he has been a member of the Examination Committees as a Correspondent and Rector of Bachelor's Thesis in Italian Literature, Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Italian Philology, History of Criticism, History of Criticism and Literary Storiography, History of the Film, Literature Theatrical, Church History, General Psychology, Comparative Literature, History of Contemporary Political Thought (Fac. Of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri"), discussing several hundred thesis arguments. He has been a co-author of doctoral theses from various universities (University of Verona, Department of Historical Art, Archaeological and Geographic Disciplines, Ph.D. in History of European Society,May 14, 2008; University of Bologna, Department of Italian Studies, Doctoral School of Italian Research, May 21, 2009). Very intense, and here in detail, it has been in recent years the activity of presenting books, especially works of narrative and literary essays, and the participation as a speaker at national and international study conferences. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Pascolian Degree Theses Awarding Committee of the Pascoliana Academy of San Mauro (with Prof. Andrea Battistini and Marco A. Bazzocchi, University of Bologna). From the 2004 edition he is part of the jury of the literary prize "Island of Elba. Raffaello Brignetti ". President of the Commission for Admission to Teaching Italian at the University (11 February - 29 March 2005). In March 2005 he was appointed President of the "Fondazione Serra", to which the Municipality of Cesena conferred the management of cultural activities, in the field of serrian studies and, more broadly, in the twentieth century studies. He is part of the National Committee for the Renato Serra Works (set up by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 1981 and currently chaired by Ezio Raimondi). He was a member (until 2008) of the Curzio Malaparte Curriculum Committee, established in 2006 by the Municipality of Prato, with the aim of promoting conferences and publications of Acts and Studies. He is part of the National Committee for the Renato Serra Works (set up by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 1981 and currently chaired by Ezio Raimondi). He was a member (until 2008) of the Curzio Malaparte Curriculum Committee, established in 2006 by the Municipality of Prato, with the aim of promoting conferences and publications of Acts and Studies. He is part of the National Committee for the Renato Serra Works (set up by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 1981 and currently chaired by Ezio Raimondi). He was a member (until 2008) of the Curzio Malaparte Curriculum Committee, established in 2006 by the Municipality of Prato, with the aim of promoting conferences and publications of Acts and Studies.

Research Interest

Italian Literature