Stelio Maria Martini

Dalila Colucci (Harvard University)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 13 Jan 1934
Died 1 Mar 2016
Activity c. 1955-2016

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Artist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet

Resources

Martini's Works

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Nothing could better qualify the life and works of Stelio Maria Martini – Italian visual poet among the most interesting of the twentieth century – than the striking definition that he implicitly chose for himself:

impassibile naufrago

[impassive castaway]. Title of the exceptional collage section of his visual masterpiece –

Schemi

[

Schemes

] (1962) – as well as of the fascinating exhibit on experimental journals he organized in Naples in 1986, the formula stands out as an indication of his ethical and creative attitude: that of an anarchic poet separated from the cultural mainstream of his time, engaged with an idea of literature and art completely out of commerce, self-managed, and in permanent opposition to the existent.

Born in Ancona in 1934, Martini spent the rest of his life

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Citation: Colucci, Dalila. "Stelio Maria Martini". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 March 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14149, accessed 23 November 2024.]