Dino Campana

Italian poet. He began writing poetry while studying at the University of Bologna, but stopped studying due to mental illness. He then wandered around South America and Europe. During this time he worked in a variety of jobs, including as a musician, circus performer, and firefighter. After returning to Italy, he continued to move around the country, writing poems that made full use of the musicality of words, and in 1914 he compiled and self-published "The Songs of Orpheus," which he himself sold in bars and other places. Many of his poems are imbued with a strong sense of fantasy and symbolism, underpinned by his keen and anxious sensibility. After his death, "Letters" (1958) and "Notebooks from Faenza" (1960) were published.

[Kouhei Kawana]

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イタリアの詩人。ボローニャ大学在学中に詩作を始めるが、精神を病んで学業を中断。その後、南アメリカやヨーロッパ各地を放浪する。この間に楽団員、サーカス団員、消防士などさまざまな職業につく。帰国後も国内各地を転々としながら、ことばのもつ音楽性を駆使した詩を書いて、1914年に『オルペウスの歌』を編んで自費出版し、自ら酒場などで売り歩いた。その詩は、鋭敏で不安な感性に裏打ちされて、強い幻想性や象徴性を帯びたものが多い。死後、『書簡集』（1958）、『ファエンツァの手帳』（1960）などが刊行された。

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