Riccardo Bacchelli | |
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 Bacchelli c. 1955 | |
| Born | (1891-04-19)19 April 1891 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 8 October 1985(1985-10-08) (aged 94) Monza, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, essayist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Genre | Novel, play, essay |
| Notable works | Il mulino del Po |
Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian pronunciation:[rikˈkardobakˈkɛlli]; 19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the reviewLa Ronda andBagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for theNobel Prize in Literature eight times.[1]
Bacchelli contributed to the Bologna-based magazineLa Raccolta from 1918 to 1919.[2] He was a member of the editorial board of the Rome-based magazineLa Ronda between 1919 and 1922.[3] His first novel wasIl filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo (The wonderful thread of Lodovico Clo). Next wasLo sa il tonno (1923). Other works includeIl Diavolo al Pontelungo (1927) andLa città degli amanti (The City of Lovers, 1929).
His most popular work remainsIl mulino del Po (The Mill on the Po) (1938–1940), which covered a century in the life of a rural family. A film adapted from the novel was released in 1949. Later novels, published from 1945 to 1978, include:Il pianto del figlio di Lais, Non ti chiamerò più padre, La cometa,Il rapporto segreto (The secret relationship),Afrodite: un romanzo d'amore (Aphrodite: a love novel),Il progresso è un razzo (Progress is a rocket) andIl sommergibile (The submarine).
Riccardo Bacchelli was elected as a member of theRoyal Academy of Italy. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1971.[4]
The novel narrates in more than 2000 pages the lives, adventures and problems of Lazzaro Scacerni and his family. It opens in the early nineteenth century as Scacerni returns to Italy from Russia, where he had served as a soldier in Napoleon's invasion, and follows him and his family through a full century until theFirst World War. Scacerni owns a mill in a rural area on the riverPo (hence the title). He and his descendants conduct their lives amid political turmoil, wars, economic hardship, and class conflicts.
The historical, geographical and social background was painstakingly researched by Bacchelli, who created a large and comprehensive portrait of life in rural Italy in the nineteenth century. The language and style of this novel show that Bacchelli heldAlessandro Manzoni as his model. At the same time, he created a structure that showed his attention to contemporary European novels.[5]
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