Franco Loi

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.

Franco Loi
Loi in 2009
Born	January 21, 1930 Genova, Italy
Died	January 4, 2021 Milano
Nationality	Italian
Known for	poetry

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.

References

1. Paolo Di Stefano (4 January 2021). "È morto il poeta milanese Franco Loi, aveva 90 anni". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
2. "E' morto Franco Loi, la poesia contro il disincanto". la Repubblica. 4 January 2021.
3. "Loi: con la sua poesia il dialetto milanese diventa lingua universale/ Adnkronos". 4 January 2021. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.