Paolo Buzzi was an Italian

Italy

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 futurist

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 playwright

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 and poet

Poet

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Biography

Buzzi studied law

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 in Pavia

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, and at the same time attended lecture

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s in litterature. In 1891, he won the milanese

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 Concorso di Poesia award. In 1898 with Rapsodie leopardiane his poetry career begun in ernest. In 1905 he won the title of Best Italian Language Poet in a competition in the literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 Poesia, founded by Marinetti and Sem Benelli

Sem Benelli

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. He started thus to write for Poesia, and became a noted futurist, experimenting with poetical and theatrical form. He also tried filming. In later years he left the futurist work ethos and worked with traditional forms of poetry.

Works

• Poesie leopardiane 1898, Galli e Raimondi, Milano
• L'esilio, 1906, Galli e Raimondi, Milano
• Aeroplani, 1909, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milano
• Versi liberi Treves, 1913, Milano
• L'Elisse e la spirale, 1915, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milano
• Bel canto", 1916, Studio Editoriale, Lombardo
• Popolo, canta così! 1920, Facchi, Milano
• Poema dei quarantanni, 1922, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milano
• Canti per le chiese vuote, 1930, Foligno
  Foligno
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  Campitelli
• Poema di radioonde, 1940
• Atomiche, 1950