Riccardo Bacchelli

Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli
	Bacchelli c. 1955
Born	19 April 1891; Bologna, Italy
Died	8 October 1985 (aged 94); Monza, Italy
Occupation	novelist, playwright, essayst
Nationality	Italian
Genre	Novel, play, essay
Notable works	Il mulino del Po

Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian pronunciation: [rikˈkardo bakˈkɛlli]; 19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.^[1]

Career[]

His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo (The wonderful thread of Lodovico Clo). Next was Lo sa il tonno (1923). Other works include Il Diavolo al Pontelungo (1927) and La città degli amanti (The City of Lovers, 1929).

His most popular work remains Il mulino del Po (The Mill on the Po) (1938–1940), which covered a century in the life of a rural family. A film adapted from the novel was released in 1949. Later novels, published from 1945 to 1978, include: Il pianto del figlio di Lais, Non ti chiamerò più padre, La cometa, Il rapporto segreto (The secret relationship), Afrodite: un romanzo d'amore (Aphrodite: a love novel), Il progresso è un razzo (Progress is a rocket) and Il sommergibile (The submarine).

Riccardo Bacchelli was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Italy. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1971.^[2]

Il mulino del Po[]

Baccellie (center) with Nino Rota and Bruno Maderna in 1963

The novel narrates in more than 2000 pages the lives, adventures and problems of Lazzaro Scacerni and his family. It opens in the early 19th century as Scacerni returns to Italy from Russia, where he had served as a soldier of Napoleon's invasion, and follows him and his family through a full century until the First World War. Scacerni owns a mill in a rural area on the river Po (hence the title). He and his descendants conduct their lives amid political turmoil, wars, economic hardship, and class conflicts.

The historical, geographical and social background was painstakingly researched by Bacchelli, who created a large and comprehensive portrait of life in rural Italy in the 19th century. The language and style of this novel show that Bacchelli held Alessandro Manzoni as his model. At the same time, he created a structure that showed his attention to contemporary European novels.^[3]

References[]

^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
^ Presidenza della Repubblica – Le Onorificenze: Riccardo Bacchelli.
^ Giulio Ferroni (1992) Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi scuola, Milano 1992, p. 956: "strutture narrative spesso acute e sottili, che mostrano una notevole attenzione alle forme del contemporaneo romanzo europeo."

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[1] "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

[2] Presidenza della Repubblica – Le Onorificenze: Riccardo Bacchelli.

[3] Giulio Ferroni (1992) Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi scuola, Milano 1992, p. 956: "strutture narrative spesso acute e sottili, che mostrano una notevole attenzione alle forme del contemporaneo romanzo europeo."

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1930s	Anselmo Bucci – (1930) (1931) (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) – (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – (1938) – – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	– Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	(1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • (1977) • – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	(1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – (1984) • (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – – (1990) • (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • – – (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – (2002) • (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – – (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • – – – – – (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – – (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • – – (2011) • – – Antonella Anedda (2012) • – – (2013) • – – (2014) • Antonio Scurati – – Franco Buffoni (2015) • – – (2016) • – – (2017) • – (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – – (2019)
2020s	– – (2020)

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Riccardo Bacchelli
Bacchelli c. 1955
Born	(1891-04-19)19 April 1891 Bologna, Italy
Died	8 October 1985(1985-10-08) (aged 94) Monza, Italy
Occupation	novelist, playwright, essayst
Nationality	Italian
Genre	Novel, play, essay
Notable works	Il mulino del Po