loyal ZANINI, THE POET AND THE SEAGULL PHILIP
by Claudio Magris
On July 1, at 'hospital in Pula, crushed sixty-six years from a disease most' strong and indomitable vitality of his blood 'that had resisted tremendous violence history, and 'dead Ligio Zanini, a poet of great originality' and innovative creativity, of which only a few in Italy. including Franco Loi Scheiwiller and Vanni. had really noticed. With him and 'off a voice that expressed. with complete autonomy and no local closure, but with total openness to the world. the drama of 'Istria in the' last half century, a drama in which they are reflected on a reduced scale geographically but historically example, tension, tears, the disappointments, the contradictions, the conflicts in the world. Prior to being a poet in his charming lyrical Ligio Zanini and the 'state in life that he lived with passion, ingenuity,' honest 'incorruptible, courage and an extraordinary ability 'to fixate on things despite the injustice and suffering endured without flinching and to pay the price of their illusions. Born in Rovinj, the 'beautiful city' Istria in 1927 and incarnation. in his way of being and feeling, in music of his poetry and his life. centuries-old civilization of the 'Venetian, his kindness and strength, and Zanini' was anti fascist, anti hotly against the persecutory politics of Italian fascism Slavic. At the end of World War II, believed that communism in Yugoslavia Titoist which exceeded domestic disputes in a more 'high-brotherhood'. In the tragic moments of the war, when it decided the fate of 'Istria the international commissions in those lands came to try to understand the ethnic composition, Zanini, as he himself told me, while Italian was among those shouting in Croatian "We want to Tito during the visit of those delegations. Shortly after the 'exodus, which saw tens of thousands of Italians get out of' Istria, Zanini realized early on that the 'teaching of' internationalism disguised, in that moment of rescue, a Slavic nationalism indiscriminately violent towards the Italians. He himself knew the 'hell of the concentration camp at Goli Otok, the' island in which the Yugoslav government, after the big break with Stalin and the Stalinist fear of coups, he deported and subjected to violence and abuse of 'every Typically, real and alleged opponents of all persuasions, even libertarian communists like him. Released after three years for 'nightmare, Zanini lived, especially at the' beginning, among the various difficulties', he could go to Italy, where he had a 'different life, but he did not' cause as I said, did not seem just eat the hand that had spat, and also because 'he felt a duty to remain, to bear witness of its civilization' and its people the 'where it was' difficult, in the desolate situation of 'Istria, some more' hard for the Italians left, but the very hard condition of the exiles' were abandoned. After holding various positions for several years teaching in Italian schools . era infatti maestro elementare . si ritiro' , in totale indipendenza, facendo il pescatore e sopravvivendo grazie a cio' che pescava uscendo ogni mattino con la sua barca in quel mare rovignese e fra le sue isole di una bellezza assoluta e dedicandosi alla poesia. Le sofferenze patite non avevano scalfito la sua serenita' , la sua fanciullesca freschezza, ne' avevano turbato il suo sentire sovranazionale: avverso al nazionalismo slavo, sino al punto di dimettersi nel 1990 dall' Associazione degli scrittori della Croazia quando essa aveva assunto la denominazione etnicamente restrittiva "Associazione degli scrittori croati" e difensore della identita' italiana, Zanini e' rimasto estraneo a ogni risentimento nazionale italiano e ha visto nel libero dialogo fra Italians and Slavs his world. A year ago, I was in the boat with him, in Rovinj. As he rowed, or docks, watching his gestures strong and quiet, her eyes still blue and shaped by the sea, and I think that 'men, the fisherman, had passed unscathed through inwardly disappointment, suffering and physical violence through the camp on Goli Otok , which he described in his novel Martin Muma, 1990, published in the journal The Battana River, an epic fresco of the history, and that 'all history of its people and choral fable of hope and disappointments of a utopian movement worldwide. For years, Zanini lived by the sea, with sails, fish and seagulls that gull File 'hypo (Filippo) with whom he converses in his poems. In his poems in dialect Rovinj. outputs in various collections and the recent volume Cun head to wind, and Scheiwiller. 's historical experience, the moral tension, the' adventure in time are present but not fused in the time of the sea, life looked face to face in its essence. When not 'folk vernacular, the dialect can' be a language for excellence in poetry, more 'resistant gears of rhetoric. Zanini certainly not uninterested in politics, followed the turbulent events with passion, full of hope and menace, of his land, but when they asked him to stand, he said that he, like other boys his age, belonged to a generation that had run its course and that regardless of its merits and faults, it should stay away. It took the boat and went off as he did now.
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BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY loyal ZANINI
Ligio Zanini was born in Rovinj, Istria September 30, 1927 - died on 1. July 1993 in the hospital in Pula crushed for 65 years from an incurable disease. He completed his studies at the Institute of Science in Pula, though very young he participated in the partisan struggle between the common file.
From 1947 to 1948, he was referring to the Italian schools of education at the Department of the Popular Committee.
Following the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform on charges of deviationism was called, like all other communist leaders, to take sides or Tito or Stalin.
him, as he said in a television interview, told of having been honored to have fought with them the Nazi-Fascists, but that from then on would be decided only by its head (hence neither with nor Tito with Stalin) and put on his party ticket. Therefore in January 1949 was among the first to suffer repression titin, finishing imprisoned in the terrible concentration camp on Goli Otok (Isola Calva).
was released only in 1952 and was forced to make the storage yard in the "Red Star" Pula remaining a special surveillance. With the help of some intellectuals
Polesine in 1956 he managed to get a job as an accountant in the enterprise business "are" in Pula.
Only in '59, finished his quarantine period, he was allowed to devote himself to teaching and was sent to Savudrija with the task of reopening the local Italian school, closed for political reasons in 1953. A Savudrija, where he remained five years, Zanini devoted himself passionately to spread Italian culture and founded the Italian Cultural Circle.
Back in Rovinj was again forced to live to devote himself to business accounts. Resumed his studies, he graduated from Pula in Pedagogy and even then resumed his teaching activities as a teacher in Valle d'Istria. Finally retired from teaching back to Rovinj, where he devoted himself exclusively to his two passions: poetry and fishing.
Member since 1970 Association of Writers in Croatia, you resigned in 1990 when it assumed, satisfying the rising Croatian nationalism, the name of the Association of Croatian writers. With his poetry
Ligio Zanini managed to emerge as a major poetic voice of Istria, achieving a certain notoriety in the national field, establishing among other things a strong and lasting friendship with the great poet of Grado, Biagio Marin, and many other Italian intellectuals including Trieste Claudio Magris.
For many, such as by Bruno Maier, his work is compared with that of Biagio Marin, however, where in the Grade poet singing lyrical introspection becomes a serene view of life in the embrace God's final, in Ligio Zanini, even speech that apparently seems to be more introspective and lyrical, in fact conceals the bitter end in his fate of Rovinj: or foreigners or refugees in their city to the world without the contact of reviving their mother land.
In this perspective, the only reassuring note is the sea, the nature of Rovinj that while also changed, at least to the poet speaks the same language as always.
But also the nature, fish, gulls become a metaphor, as in the poem "Sensa nom", his tortured existential condition, the symbol itself di quella di tutto un popolo.
Proprio grazie a questo suo afflato universalistico la sua poesia, seppure nel dialetto istrioto di Rovigno d'Istria, riesce a superare la ristretta cerchia del bozzetto flocloristico per arrivare alle vette della vera poesia.
Bibliografia:
Moussoli a scarcaciuò, Ed. Alut, Trieste 1965
Buléistro, Scheiwiller, Milano 1966
Mar quito e alanbastro, in "Istria Nobilissima", U.I.I.F. - U.P.T., Trieste 1968
Tiera viecia-stara, in "Istria Nobilissima", UIIF-UPT, Trieste 1970
Favalando cul cucal Filéipo - In stu canto da paradéisu, N. 1 della collana Biblioteca Istriana edito a cura UIIF-UPT, dalla casa Ed. LINT di Trieste dalla Erredici Padova 1979 with a preface by Bruno Maier. work that was also an edition in Serbian-Croatian: Razgovor s galebom Filipom, 1983 River
The SICO de la muorto Sagonda, in "tongues", Udine 1990
Cun head to wind. Poems in the dialect of Rovinj in Istria, and a foreword by Franco Loi letter Biagio Marin, the Scheiwiller Libri, Milano 1993.
These works of poetry is to add the autobiographical novel:
"Martin Muma" edited by the literary magazine "The Battana", nn. 95-96 1990 River
ELIGIO ZANINI (Rovinj in Istria, 1927-1993) Was born in Rovinj (Istria) and trained to be a teacher at the Institute of Science in Pula. As a very young man, he fought as a partisan against the Fascists; in January 1949 he was one of the first to suffer repression under Tito and was imprisoned in the communist lager, Goli Otok (Isola Calva). When he was freed in 1952, he found work as an accountant. He was not allowed to return to teaching until 1959. For five years he taught in Salvore, then returned to Rovigno where he worked as an accountant to make ends meet and earned a University degree in Education at Pola before teaching in a school in Valle d'Istria and finally returning to Rovigno where he retired to write poetry in the Istriot dialect of Rovigno and to fish.
Source:
http://www.smith.edu/metamorphoses/biographiesw-z.html/
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