Giovanni Giudici

Giovanni Giudici (1924–2011) was an Italian poet and journalist, raised in a fishing village on the Ligurian coast. In 1941 he enrolled at university to study medicine, at his father’s urging, but his fascination with literature grew and he often attended Italian literature classes, reading poets such as Sereni, Ungaretti, and Quasimodo. In 1942 he quit studying medicine and enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities. Throughout the war, he published stories and poems, and afterward worked as a professional journalist, mostly for leftist newspapers. During his lifetime he published more than two dozen collections of poetry. (Photo credit: Interno Poesia)