Renato Fucini

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Renato Fucini

Renato Fucini (8 April 1843 – 25 February 1921), also known by the pseudonym Neri Tanfucio[lower-alpha 1], was an Italian poet and writer.

Biography

Renato Fucini was born in Monterotondo, the son of Giovanna Nardi and David Fucini, a doctor with the government malarial fever commission. He spent his boyhood years in Campiglia Marittima, Maremma. He attended elementary school at the Barnabites in Livorno. Financial difficulties drove the family to retire to their ancestral home in Dianella, near Empoli. Later, when his father obtained practice in Vinci, Renato was able to study privately in Empoli. In 1863 he graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in agricultural science, after leaving his medical studies, and began working as an assistant in the technical office of a Florentine engineer. At the same time he began to frequent a now defunct historic café, the Caffè dei Risorti, where, taking his cue from various tragicomic episodes narrated by some of the patrons, he began to compose sonnets.

Thanks to these compositions he began to make a name for himself as a poet, and in 1871 his Cento sonetti in vernacolo pisano came out. He made his debut as a prose writer in 1877 with a reportage on Naples (Napoli a occhio nudo: Lettere ad un amico). Following literary success, he devoted himself to teaching, becoming a professor of "belle lettere" in Pistoia and later a school inspector. Related to the latter activity are the novellas in the collection Le veglie di Neri (1882),[lower-alpha 2] set mainly in Maremma, as well as the later collections All'aria aperta and Nella campagna toscana. The favorite motifs are those of rural life in the areas Fucini knew best: the Maremma and the villages of the Pistoia Apennines.

Fucini also dedicated a poem to Giacomo Puccini for the premiere of the opera Madama Butterfly (1904); the text of the poem can be found at Villa Puccini, Torre del Lago. The poem was later set to music for a song by Renato Brogi, entitled, precisely, Gotine gialle. Puccini, in turn, set to music two poems by Fucini: E l uccellino, dedicated to a child, and Avanti Urania, composed for the launching of a steamboat.

After working for a few years at the Riccardiana Library in Florence, he was retired in 1906, spending the last years of his life between his residence in Dianella and his residence in Castiglioncello, maintaining dense and close ties with friends and former colleagues. In 1916 he was elected a member of the Accademia della Crusca.[1] Death seized him on February 25, 1921. The author's last edited work, published shortly after his death, Acqua passata: storielle e aneddoti della mia vita (1921), contains very short, generally autobiographical writings. He rests in the oratory of San Michele in Dianella, adjacent to the Fucini family home, now owned by the Counts Passerin D'Entrèves, with his wife Emma Roster, father David, mother Giovanna Nardi, daughters and other family members.

Works

  • Cento sonetti in vernacolo pisano di Neri Tanfucio (1872)
  • Napoli a occhio nudo. Lettere ad un amico (1878)
  • Le veglie di Neri. Paesi e figure della campagna Toscana (1882)
  • All'aria aperta (1897)
  • Le poesie di Neri Tanfucio con l'aggiunta di 50 nuovi sonetti in vernacolo (1882)
  • Il mondo nuovo. Libro di Lettura per la Terza classe elementare (1901)
  • Il mondo nuovo. Libro di Lettura per la Quarta classe elementare (1904)
  • Nella campagna toscana. Tre nuovi racconti: Castore e Polluce, Tigrino, Il signor colonnello (1908)
  • Il bambino di gommelastica (1910; freely translated from the Russian of Dmitry Grigorovich)
  • Acqua passata. Storielle e aneddoti della mia vita (1921)
  • Foglie al vento (1922)
  • Il ciuco di Melesecche. Storielline in prosa e in versi (1922)
  • La maestrina (1922; novella)
  • Lettere all'amico dei fichi d'India (1943)

Notes

Footnotes

  1. An anagram of his name.
  2. Le veglie di Neri collects short stories published from 1877 to 1881 in the Rassegna settimanale, a magazine directed by Sidney Sonnino, except Dolci ricordi, which appeared in "La domenica del Fracassa" (Jan. 16, 1885), and "Scampagnata", composed especially for the complete edition, which was produced at the Barbèra Publishing House in Florence in 1882.

Citations

  1. "Renato Fucini," Accademia della Crusca.

References

  • Batini, Giorgio (1972). Album di Pisa. Firenze: La Nazione.
  • Berti, Giovanni (2019). "Un'amicizia trascurata. Il carteggio tra Renato Fucini e Ferdinando Martini," Le Antiche Dogane, NO. 236/242, Febbraio - Agosto.
  • Caglianone, Gianpiero; Renato Fucini (2002). Per una bibliografia fuciniana: opere raccolte in volume (1872-1997). Massa Marittima.
  • Centonze, Giuseppe (2005). "Con Renato Fucini a Castellammare e a Sorrento". In: Stabiana, Castellammare di Stabia e dintorni nella storia, nella letteratura, nell'arte. Castellammare di Stabia: N. Longobardi, pp. 213–34.
  • Chini, Mario (1932). "Fucini, Renato." In: Enciclopedia Italiana. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • Cibotto, Gian Antonio (1993). "Introduzione". In: Renato Fucini, Le veglie di Neri. Milano: Tascabili Economici Newton.
  • Fagioli Simone (2021). Le sogliole di Renato Fucini. Arcidosso: Effigi.
  • Fucini, Renato (2011). Opere, a cura di Davide Puccini. Firenze: Le Lettere.
  • Lazzi, Giovanna (2014). Renato Fucini in Riccardiana: la vita e le carte di un toscano "vero". Catalogo della Mostra tenuta alla Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze dal 22 maggio al 30 settembre 2014. Firenze: Polistampa.
  • Leonardi, Giorgio (2017). "Renato Fucini in Maremma. Ricordi e memorie dagli scritti autobiografici," Le Antiche Dogane, No. 214, anno XIX.
  • Matucci, Elisabetta; Paola Barbadori Lande (1985). I Macchiaioli di Renato Fucini — Gabinetto G. P. Vieusseux, catalogo mostra palazzo Strozzi del 1985. Firenze: Edizioni Pananti.
  • Proietti, Domenico (1998). "Fucini, Renato". In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 50. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • Sozzi, Massimo (2014). "Renato Fucini: 'Una grande scoperta'," Le Antiche Dogane, No. 182, p. 8.

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