Giovanni Testori

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Giovanni Testori
Born	(1923-05-12)12 May 1923 Novate Milanese, Italy
Died	16 March 1993(1993-03-16) (aged 69) Milan, Italy
Occupation	Playwright
Genre	Drama

Giovanni Testori (Novate Milanese 12 May 1923 – Milan 16 March 1993) was an Italian writer, playwright, art historian and literary critic.

Testori's literary works are characterised by linguistic experimentalism, featuring both lexicon and syntax that mix and fuse elements of the Lombard dialect with French and English. Religion is present in his oeuvre in a tense relationship with transcendence, and marked by feelings of doubt, blasphemy and repentance.

In 1972 he co-founded, with Franco Parenti, Andrée Ruth Shammah, Dante Isella and Gian Maurizio Fercioni, the theatre Il Salone Pier Lombardo, later to be renamed Franco Parenti Theatre.^[1]

Testori was also a respected art critic. He authored monographs on the work of Marino Marini, Tanzio da Varallo, Johan Thorn Prikker, Giuliano Vangi, Enzo Cucchi and Igor Mitoraj.

Testori's native house in Novate Milanese is now a museum.^[2]

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