Hrand Nazariantz
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Hrand Nazariantz was an Armenia
n/Ottoman
journalist and supporter of Armenian independence.
district of Constantinople
January 8, 1886, son of Diran Nazariantz, "green-eyed orator and patriot" Armenian businessman and member of the National Assembly in the district of Kumkapı
and Azniv Meramedjian (Merametdjian). In the capital of the Ottoman Empire he attended his studies starting from 1898, in Reteos Berberian
college, but he was expelled because of a relationship with Retheos' daughter and for asking her to marry.
In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy". In the same year he completes the first draft of the collectionThe crucified dreams.
In 1905 in Paris, he matriculated at Sorbonne
and he joined the National Movement for the Liberation of Armenia.
In 1907 he went back to the Ottoman Empire
because of his father's sickness, to take over the management of the family, established in the production of carpets and lace, which gave work to about two thousand workers, located in the districts of Üsküdar
, Kumkapi
, Kadıköy
. This commitment to work in a factory continued alongside an intense and literary journalism.
(Matbaa İşçileri Meslek Birliği , founded by Karekin Gozikyan). He also works with the novelist Rupen Zartarian
and the playwright Leon Serpossian
, in the magazine of art and controversy Baguine(Temple). Atom Yarjanian (Siamanto
), an important Armenian journalist, wrote for this magazine.
In 1910 tries to establish with Gostan Zarian
and Kegham Parseghian
a circle of innovative art around Les volontés folles. In the same field comes out in Constantinople
, accompanied by illustrations of cartoonist Enrico Sacchetti, aka Yambo, the important essay on FT Marinetti and futurism
(FT Marinetti and apagajapaštoitiine). In the same year he publishes a series of poetry books that stand out as the leading exponent of so-called symbol
poetry in Armenian.
From 1911 is in correspondence with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
, Gian Pietro Lucini, Libero Altomare and engages on essays and translations in Armenian language
, to make known their poetry together with that of Corrado Govoni and Henry Cardile as part of a larger work of renovation in literature in the Armenian language in the light of the important Italian and French literature and historical events. In the same year Armen Enovk' published an essay titled Hrand Nazariantz and His Crucified Dreams.
In the same line is to be included in the volume Le Tasse et ses traducteurs arméniens. the test was preceded by a letter of recommendation from a famous linguist, philologist and translator of Dante's era father Arsen Ghazikian of Mechitar Congregation of Venice
. This work, having as its topic translations into Armenian of Torquato Tasso
's opera, released in French for the publishing house Arzouman types of Constantinople
in 1912. Also in 1912, the re-release of The Crucified Dreams requires the attention of the public and critics.
From 1913 appeares the original versions of the texts Aurora, soul of beauty, Gloria Victis, The Crown of Thorns, The great hymn of cosmic tragedy and an essay on Heranush Arshakian.
Engaged in recent years to obtain the support of European intellectuals to the Armenian cause, finds in Italy other supporters. Among these are undoubtedly highlighting Giovanni Verga
, Luigi Pirandello
and later Umberto Zanotti Bianco, and many other well-known Italian and European intellectuals associated with the Masonic and Rosicrucian fraternities.
Sentenced to death in absentia by a court of the Ottoman Empire in 1913, he found asylum in the Italian Consulate of Constantinople, and once he obtains the nationality following marriage to the singer from Casamassima
, Maddalena De Cosmis, called Lena, occurred on February 10, he moves to Bari
in exile. There are, however, reports of cohabitation with Lena De Cosmis, the daughter of Leonardo De Cosmis, starting from 1911 through the header of a letter. The poet Gian Pietro Lucini, a friend of Nazariantz, two years before marriage, in fact, addressed his letters to the "family De Cosmis-Nazariantz" at "the Italian Post Office at Galata suburb of Constantinople".
Arriving in Italy, he intensified the relations with members of the Armenian diaspora and with the protagonists of the Italian culture, French and English, going abroad for study. At the same time he was hired as a professor of French and English at the Technical, Marine, and Professional Institute in Bari
.
directed by him, his essay on the Armenian poet Bedros Tourian, and presentation of Enrico Cardile, which will also translate, for editions of the magazine Humanitas of Bari, I sogni Crocifissi (1916), Lo Specchio (1920) and Vahakn (1920). Next year is the beginning of collaboration The Hardening by Renato Fondi, with which will establish a regular and lasting relationship.
Following Nazariantz comes into contact with avant-garde Sicilian magazines hosting his contributions: The climb(1917), The Literary Kindler (1917) and La spirale where in 1919 has published an extract from the poem Lo Specchio.
In Bari became a friend of Franco Casavola
and is committed to promoting music production. The two work together to organize, with the help of Giuseppe Laterza, Giacomo Favia, Tina Suglia, and others, the Futurist evening at Teatro Piccinni
of Bari, September 26, 1922. A few months later, on January 2, 1923, the evening's program at the futuristic Teatro Margherita
Bari includes "the mimic action-drama" entitled "Lo specchio", with music by Franco Casavola
Nazariantz inspired by the poem.
In 1924 the Alpes publishing house by Milan
public in the translation of Cesare Giardini who is also the curator, the collection Tre poemi, including "Heaven of Shadows", "Aurora anima di bellezza ", "Saadi Nazyade flower".
In the same year his commitment to supporting the Armenian cause is also responsible for the foundation, in the countryside of Bari, in the village for Armenian exiles Nor Arax, which nourish the production of carpets and lace.
After 1943 he collaborated with Radio Bari
, taking into literary conversation. In the same year he founded the symbolist-Masonic magazine "and Graalismo Grail" which appeared on the writings, among others, Giuseppe Ungaretti
, Ada Negri
, Liliana Scalero, Elpidio Jenco, Giuseppe Villaroel, Lionello Liumi, and other illustrations of famous and lesser-known painters, among them to remember Fryda Laureti Ciletti.
In 1946 was published in the Italian translation of "Il grande canto della cosmica tragedia". In 1951 gave to the press the "Manifesto Graalico". In it, considered ending the Italian avant-garde, and the other signatories Nazariantz entrusted the resolution of intellectual-society relationship to the absolute primacy of art. In 1952 was published in the latest anthology entitled "Il ritorno dei poeti."
In 1953 a large number of Italian and foreign intellectuals proposed to the Committee for the award of the Nobel Prize
for Literature his candidacy. The prize was awarded that year to Winston Churchill
. At the requests of the documents found in the name of Nazariantz highlight a lack of effectiveness on the part of applicants and it includes well as non-acceptance.
, living surrounded by affection and esteem of some young friends Conversano, not that they wanted to rediscover the enormous human and intellectual value.
In recent years, verified the nullity of his first marriage, also died Victory Strazzabosco his faithful companion for many years, wed with Maria Lucarelli.
He died in 1962. From Conversano
, a town so loved, he moved to Casamassima
, also in the province of Bari
, in 1960. Here he lived in conditions of almost complete destitution with his second wife Maria Lucarelli.
Throughout his life, maintained a great admiration for the fairer sex, which had a glimpse of the symbolism of Miriam, due, perhaps, the mystical and esoteric teachings of Giuliano Kremmerz
.
Currently buried in the necropolis of Bari
, in a tomb almost anonymous, bearing only the name indicated the dates of birth and death, and the definition of "Poet".
The tomb where his remains were housed is owned by the family of Diran Timurian, an entrepreneur in the import-export of oriental carpets, one of many Armenians, who thanks to his humanitarian work had arrived in Bari and I had found refuge.
"Nazariantz is a man of inexhaustible energy, a consistently exceptional, with a prodigious enthusiasm, fascinating in its resolute modesty. His enthusiasm can community, his passion becomes epidemic, if you know you will love it, if you love him you feel ready to share its risks and dedicate to his cause (Ed namely Armenia free)"
Daniel Varujan
, known Armenian poet, wrote:
"Nazariantz has written poems that can match those in their splendor deep Stéphane Mallarmé
, French poet. His soul has in fact an exceptional affinity with the soul of the prince of poets. Soul always be striving intoxication unknown and indefinite that one can hardly perceive through the human aspiration. His images are evocative of a depth. Nazariantz is a poet of light"
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n/Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
journalist and supporter of Armenian independence.
Biography
He was born in the ÜsküdarÜsküdar
Üsküdar is a large and densely populated municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered on the north by Beykoz, on the east by Ümraniye, on the southeast by Ataşehir, on the south by Kadıköy, and on the west by the Bosphorus, with the areas of Beşiktaş,...
district of Constantinople
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
January 8, 1886, son of Diran Nazariantz, "green-eyed orator and patriot" Armenian businessman and member of the National Assembly in the district of Kumkapı
Kumkapi
Kumkapı is part of the Fatih district of Istanbul. It is located along the Marmara Sea. Up to recent times, Kumkapı was mostly inhabited by Armenians, who still have a community school and several churches there. It is also the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople...
and Azniv Meramedjian (Merametdjian). In the capital of the Ottoman Empire he attended his studies starting from 1898, in Reteos Berberian
Reteos Berberian
Reteos Berberian was a famed Armenian educator, pedagogue, principal, writer, poet, and founder of the prestigious Armenian school Berberian Varjaran .- Biography :...
college, but he was expelled because of a relationship with Retheos' daughter and for asking her to marry.
In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy". In the same year he completes the first draft of the collectionThe crucified dreams.
In 1905 in Paris, he matriculated at Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
and he joined the National Movement for the Liberation of Armenia.
In 1907 he went back to the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
because of his father's sickness, to take over the management of the family, established in the production of carpets and lace, which gave work to about two thousand workers, located in the districts of Üsküdar
Üsküdar
Üsküdar is a large and densely populated municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered on the north by Beykoz, on the east by Ümraniye, on the southeast by Ataşehir, on the south by Kadıköy, and on the west by the Bosphorus, with the areas of Beşiktaş,...
, Kumkapi
Kumkapi
Kumkapı is part of the Fatih district of Istanbul. It is located along the Marmara Sea. Up to recent times, Kumkapı was mostly inhabited by Armenians, who still have a community school and several churches there. It is also the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople...
, Kadıköy
Kadiköy
Kadıköy is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district of İstanbul, Turkey on the Asian side of the Sea of Marmara, facing the historic city centre on the European side of the Bosporus...
. This commitment to work in a factory continued alongside an intense and literary journalism.
Political and literary activity in the Ottoman Empire
In 1908 with Dikran Zavenè, he assumes the leadership of the newspaper Surhantag (in Turkish, Haberci) (The Messenger), in 1909 he founds also the weekly political and literary Nor Hosank (New Wave), in collaboration with Karekin Gozikyan, called Yasselem, who is the founder in Constantinople of the first workers' union of the Armenian press in Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
(Matbaa İşçileri Meslek Birliği , founded by Karekin Gozikyan). He also works with the novelist Rupen Zartarian
Rupen Zartarian
Rupen Zartarian or Roupen Zartarian was an Armenian writer, educator, and political activist. He was killed by Turkish authorities during the Armenian Genocide.- Life :...
and the playwright Leon Serpossian
Levon Shant
Levon Shant , was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation.- Biography :He was a life-long member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and is the namesake of the ARF's Shant Student Association.Attended Armenian school at Scutari until...
, in the magazine of art and controversy Baguine(Temple). Atom Yarjanian (Siamanto
Siamanto
Atom Yarjanian , better known by his pen name Siamanto , was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was killed by the Ottoman authorities during the Armenian Genocide.- Life :He was born in 1878, in the town on Ağın on the...
), an important Armenian journalist, wrote for this magazine.
In 1910 tries to establish with Gostan Zarian
Gostan Zarian
Gostan or Kostan Zarian was an Armenian writer.- Biography :Kostan Zaryan was born in Shamakhy, on February 2, 1885...
and Kegham Parseghian
Kegham Parseghian
Kegham Parseghian , was a famed Armenian writer, columnist, publicist, teacher, editor, and journalist. - Biography :...
a circle of innovative art around Les volontés folles. In the same field comes out in Constantinople
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, accompanied by illustrations of cartoonist Enrico Sacchetti, aka Yambo, the important essay on FT Marinetti and futurism
Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...
(FT Marinetti and apagajapaštoitiine). In the same year he publishes a series of poetry books that stand out as the leading exponent of so-called symbol
Symbol
A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
poetry in Armenian.
From 1911 is in correspondence with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...
, Gian Pietro Lucini, Libero Altomare and engages on essays and translations in Armenian language
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
, to make known their poetry together with that of Corrado Govoni and Henry Cardile as part of a larger work of renovation in literature in the Armenian language in the light of the important Italian and French literature and historical events. In the same year Armen Enovk' published an essay titled Hrand Nazariantz and His Crucified Dreams.
In the same line is to be included in the volume Le Tasse et ses traducteurs arméniens. the test was preceded by a letter of recommendation from a famous linguist, philologist and translator of Dante's era father Arsen Ghazikian of Mechitar Congregation of Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. This work, having as its topic translations into Armenian of Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem...
's opera, released in French for the publishing house Arzouman types of Constantinople
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
in 1912. Also in 1912, the re-release of The Crucified Dreams requires the attention of the public and critics.
From 1913 appeares the original versions of the texts Aurora, soul of beauty, Gloria Victis, The Crown of Thorns, The great hymn of cosmic tragedy and an essay on Heranush Arshakian.
Engaged in recent years to obtain the support of European intellectuals to the Armenian cause, finds in Italy other supporters. Among these are undoubtedly highlighting Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Carmelo Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story "Cavalleria Rusticana" and the novel I Malavoglia .-Life and career:The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro,...
, Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...
and later Umberto Zanotti Bianco, and many other well-known Italian and European intellectuals associated with the Masonic and Rosicrucian fraternities.
Sentenced to death in absentia by a court of the Ottoman Empire in 1913, he found asylum in the Italian Consulate of Constantinople, and once he obtains the nationality following marriage to the singer from Casamassima
Casamassima
Casamassima is a town and comune in the province of Bari, Puglia, Italy.The town is located inland from the Italian coastline, thrives and is built on agriculture, primarily that of wine, olives and almond production....
, Maddalena De Cosmis, called Lena, occurred on February 10, he moves to Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
in exile. There are, however, reports of cohabitation with Lena De Cosmis, the daughter of Leonardo De Cosmis, starting from 1911 through the header of a letter. The poet Gian Pietro Lucini, a friend of Nazariantz, two years before marriage, in fact, addressed his letters to the "family De Cosmis-Nazariantz" at "the Italian Post Office at Galata suburb of Constantinople".
Arriving in Italy, he intensified the relations with members of the Armenian diaspora and with the protagonists of the Italian culture, French and English, going abroad for study. At the same time he was hired as a professor of French and English at the Technical, Marine, and Professional Institute in Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
.
Literary activity in Italy
In 1915 collaborates with Il Ritmo and he prints for Laterza editors in Bari the first volume of the collection ideal of knowledge ArmeniaArmenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
directed by him, his essay on the Armenian poet Bedros Tourian, and presentation of Enrico Cardile, which will also translate, for editions of the magazine Humanitas of Bari, I sogni Crocifissi (1916), Lo Specchio (1920) and Vahakn (1920). Next year is the beginning of collaboration The Hardening by Renato Fondi, with which will establish a regular and lasting relationship.
Following Nazariantz comes into contact with avant-garde Sicilian magazines hosting his contributions: The climb(1917), The Literary Kindler (1917) and La spirale where in 1919 has published an extract from the poem Lo Specchio.
In Bari became a friend of Franco Casavola
Franco Casavola
Franco Casavola was a Futurist composer and theorist.-Futurist movement:In a letter dated 1 October 1922, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote to the composer, theorist and writer Franco Casavola:...
and is committed to promoting music production. The two work together to organize, with the help of Giuseppe Laterza, Giacomo Favia, Tina Suglia, and others, the Futurist evening at Teatro Piccinni
Teatro Piccinni
Teatro Piccinni is a theatre in the city of Bari, Apulia on the east coast of Italy. It was founded in 1854 and opened on 30 May of that year. -References:...
of Bari, September 26, 1922. A few months later, on January 2, 1923, the evening's program at the futuristic Teatro Margherita
Teatro Margherita
Teatro Margherita is a theatre in the city of Bari, Apulia on the east coast of Italy. It opened on September 5, 1910....
Bari includes "the mimic action-drama" entitled "Lo specchio", with music by Franco Casavola
Franco Casavola
Franco Casavola was a Futurist composer and theorist.-Futurist movement:In a letter dated 1 October 1922, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote to the composer, theorist and writer Franco Casavola:...
Nazariantz inspired by the poem.
In 1924 the Alpes publishing house by Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
public in the translation of Cesare Giardini who is also the curator, the collection Tre poemi, including "Heaven of Shadows", "Aurora anima di bellezza ", "Saadi Nazyade flower".
In the same year his commitment to supporting the Armenian cause is also responsible for the foundation, in the countryside of Bari, in the village for Armenian exiles Nor Arax, which nourish the production of carpets and lace.
After 1943 he collaborated with Radio Bari
Radio Bari
The Radio Bari station, broadcasting from Bari in southern Italy, with a power of 20 kW, was commissioned by the Italian national broadcasting company, EIAR, in 1932.- Radio Bari during the Fascist Regime :...
, taking into literary conversation. In the same year he founded the symbolist-Masonic magazine "and Graalismo Grail" which appeared on the writings, among others, Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo , he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned...
, Ada Negri
Ada Negri
Ada Negri was an Italian poet and writer.-Biography:She was born in Lodi into an artisan family to Giuseppe Negri and his wife Vittoria Cornalba. She attended Lodi’s Normal School for Girls and earned an elementary teacher’s diploma...
, Liliana Scalero, Elpidio Jenco, Giuseppe Villaroel, Lionello Liumi, and other illustrations of famous and lesser-known painters, among them to remember Fryda Laureti Ciletti.
In 1946 was published in the Italian translation of "Il grande canto della cosmica tragedia". In 1951 gave to the press the "Manifesto Graalico". In it, considered ending the Italian avant-garde, and the other signatories Nazariantz entrusted the resolution of intellectual-society relationship to the absolute primacy of art. In 1952 was published in the latest anthology entitled "Il ritorno dei poeti."
In 1953 a large number of Italian and foreign intellectuals proposed to the Committee for the award of the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
for Literature his candidacy. The prize was awarded that year to Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
. At the requests of the documents found in the name of Nazariantz highlight a lack of effectiveness on the part of applicants and it includes well as non-acceptance.
The last few years and death
The last years of life were characterized by heightened the economic hardships that had plagued him throughout his life as a stateless person. At the end of the fifties was admitted to a hospital in ConversanoConversano
Conversano is an ancient town and comune in the province of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It is located 30 km south-east of Bari, 7 km from the Adriatic coast, at 219 m above sea-level....
, living surrounded by affection and esteem of some young friends Conversano, not that they wanted to rediscover the enormous human and intellectual value.
In recent years, verified the nullity of his first marriage, also died Victory Strazzabosco his faithful companion for many years, wed with Maria Lucarelli.
He died in 1962. From Conversano
Conversano
Conversano is an ancient town and comune in the province of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It is located 30 km south-east of Bari, 7 km from the Adriatic coast, at 219 m above sea-level....
, a town so loved, he moved to Casamassima
Casamassima
Casamassima is a town and comune in the province of Bari, Puglia, Italy.The town is located inland from the Italian coastline, thrives and is built on agriculture, primarily that of wine, olives and almond production....
, also in the province of Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, in 1960. Here he lived in conditions of almost complete destitution with his second wife Maria Lucarelli.
Throughout his life, maintained a great admiration for the fairer sex, which had a glimpse of the symbolism of Miriam, due, perhaps, the mystical and esoteric teachings of Giuliano Kremmerz
Giuliano Kremmerz
Giuliano M. Kremmerz born Ciro Formisano, was an Italian alchemist working within the tradition of hermeticism.In 1896, Kremmerz founded the Confraternita Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam ....
.
Currently buried in the necropolis of Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, in a tomb almost anonymous, bearing only the name indicated the dates of birth and death, and the definition of "Poet".
The tomb where his remains were housed is owned by the family of Diran Timurian, an entrepreneur in the import-export of oriental carpets, one of many Armenians, who thanks to his humanitarian work had arrived in Bari and I had found refuge.
Quotes
The Sicilian poet Enrico Cardile, wrote of him:"Nazariantz is a man of inexhaustible energy, a consistently exceptional, with a prodigious enthusiasm, fascinating in its resolute modesty. His enthusiasm can community, his passion becomes epidemic, if you know you will love it, if you love him you feel ready to share its risks and dedicate to his cause (Ed namely Armenia free)"
Daniel Varujan
Daniel Varujan
Daniel Varujan or "Taniel Varujan" is one of the significant Armenian poets of the 20th century.He was one of the greatest Armenian poets of this century...
, known Armenian poet, wrote:
"Nazariantz has written poems that can match those in their splendor deep Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
, French poet. His soul has in fact an exceptional affinity with the soul of the prince of poets. Soul always be striving intoxication unknown and indefinite that one can hardly perceive through the human aspiration. His images are evocative of a depth. Nazariantz is a poet of light"
Works
- Եղիա Տէմիրճիպաշեանի սիրային նամակները, 1886-1889: երկու ինքնատիպ լուսանկարներով եւ իր ձեռագիր մէկ նամակով (trad. Eghia Tēmirchipasheani sirayin namaknerě, 1886-1889: erku inkʿnatip lusankarnerov ew ir dzeṛagir mēk namakov), Constantinopoli, Tēr-Nersēsean, 1910
- Ֆ.Թ. Մառինէթթի եւ ապագայապաշտութիւնը, (trasl.F. T. Marinetti ei Apagajapaštoitiine), (trad. F.T. Marinetti e il Futurisismo), Constantinopoli, Onnik Parseghian e Figli, 1910
- Հերանուշ Արշակեան: Իր կեանքը եւ բանաստեղծությունները (trasl.Heranush Arshakean: Ir keank’y yev banasteghtsut’yunnery), (trad.Heranush Arshakean la sua vita e poesie), Constantinopoli, Tēr-Nersēsean, 1910
- Le Tasse et ses traducteurs arméniens; Avec une lettre du Père Arsène Ghazighian, Constantinopoli, Arzouman, 1912
- Խաչուած երազներ, (trasl.Khachuats yerazner), (trad.Sogni Crocifissi), Constantinopoli, Tēr-Nersēsean, 1912
- Bedros Tourian poeta armeno, dalla sua vita e dalle sue pagine migliori, con cenno sull'arte armena. Con una presentazione di Enrico Cardile, Bari, Laterza, 1915
- L'Armenia, il suo martirio e le sue rivendicazioni, con introduzione di Giorgio D'Acandia (pseud. di Umberto Zanotti BiancoUmberto Zanotti BiancoUmberto Zanotti Bianco was an Italian archaeologist, environmentalist and lifetime senator ....
), Catania, Battiato, 1916 - I trovieri dell'Armenia nella loro vita e nei loro canti: con cenno sui canti popolari armeni, prefazione di Ferdinando RussoFerdinando RussoFerdinando Russo was a prominent Neapolitan journalist primarily remembered as a dialect poet and composer of song lyrics. He was also the author of a small volume, La Camorra, about organized crime in Naples, serialized in five installments in 1897 in il Mattino, still the largest Neapolitan...
Bari, Humanitas, 1916 - I sogni crocefissi, versione italiana di Enrico Cardile; con una premessa del traduttore e note bio-bibliografiche, BariBariBari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, Humanitas, 1916 - Arsciak Ciobanian: nella sua vita e nelle sue pagine migliori, in collaborazione di Mario Virgilio Garea; con prefazione di Mario Pilo, Bari, Humanitas, 1917
- Muoio di sete..., da La tristezza delle rosee nudità, canto e pianoforte di Franco CasavolaFranco CasavolaFranco Casavola was a Futurist composer and theorist.-Futurist movement:In a letter dated 1 October 1922, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote to the composer, theorist and writer Franco Casavola:...
, parole di Hrand Nazariantz, Milano, Ricordi e C., 1920 - Lo specchio, versione italiana di Enrico Cardile, Bari, Humanitas, 1920
- Vahakn, versione italiana di Enrico Cardile, Bari, Humanitas, 1920
- L'arte di ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, 1924 - Tre poemi, tradusse dall'armeno C. Giardini, Milano, Alpes, 1924
- O sonno, sonno, nostra ultima festa dal [Paradiso delle Ombre] di Hrand Nazariantz, traduzione dall'armeno di C. Giardini. Poemetto per canto e pianoforte, Bologna, Bongiovanni, 1935
- Il grande canto della cosmica tragedia: Hur Hayran. Versione italiana di Enrico Cardile, con una allocuzione estetico ermetica di Eli Drac. Xilografie di Piero Casotti, Bari, Ed. Gioconda, 1946 e 1948
- Il ritorno dei poeti ed altre poesie, FirenzeFirenzeFirenze is the Italian name for the city of Florence.Firenze may also refer to:* Andrea da Firenze, an Italian composer* Lorenzo da Firenze, an Italian composer and music teacher of the trecento...
, Kursaal, 1952 - Armenia: lo sterminio dimenticato, a cura di Tiziano Arrigoni, PiombinoPiombinoPiombino is an Italian town and comune of circa 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno . It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.-Overview:...
, La bancarella, 2008 - I Sogni Crocifissi, poesie scelte a cura di Dorella Cianci, FoggiaFoggiaFoggia is a city and comune of Apulia, Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. Foggia is the main city of a plain called Tavoliere, also known as the "granary of Italy".-History:...
, Sentieri Meridiani, 2011
Secondary bibliography
- Armen Yenovk, Hrand Nazariantz e i suoi Sogni Crocifissi, Costantinopoli, Der Nersessian, 1911
- S. Eremian, Hrand Nazariantz e suoi sogni crocefissi, Costantinopoli, Shant, 1911.
- Giuseppe Cartella Gelardi, Per la traduzione italiana de "I sogni crocefissi" di Hrand Nazariantz, Bari, Soc. tip. editrice barese, 1916
- Giulio Gaglione, La benda sugli occhi: Primo saggio di una interpretazione generale della poesia contemporanea, Napoli, Ed. delle "Crociere Barbare", 1919
- Massimo Gaglione, La Poesia di Hrand Nazariantz, MarcianiseMarcianiseMarcianise is a town and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy.-History:In the area of the commune of Marcianise numerous tombs of Etruscan and Roman age have been excavated, although Oscan elements should have pre-existed. The origin of the today's city are uncertain...
, autoedizione, 1918 - Massimo Gaglione, Nazariantz e Barbusse, CasertaCasertaCaserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...
, 1921 - Raffaele Carrieri, Con Hrand Nazariantz al villaggio armeno “Nor Arax”, “Il Mezzogiorno”, 15-16 novembre 1927.
- Giuseppe Cartella Gelardi, Il grande canto della Cosmica tragedia, Milano, 1932
- Domenico Tarantini, Compie trentatré anni la repubblica del vecchio poeta, in "Settimo Giorno", 1958.
- Giuseppe Lucatuorto, Un poeta cosmico, Hrand Nazariantz, "Il Corriere del giorno". Bari 16 febbraio 1962.
- Pasquale Sorrenti, Hrand Nazariantz. Uomo, poeta, patriota, BariBariBari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, Levante, 1978. - Mara Filippozzi, Hrand Nazariantz. Poeta armeno esule in Puglia, GalatinaGalatinaGalatina , known before the unification of Italy as San Pietro in Galatina, is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in Apulia.Among the most important cities in Salento, it is situated some 21 km south of the city of Lecce....
, Congedo, 1987. - Domenico Cofano (a cura di), Hrand Nazariantz fra Oriente e Occidente. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Conversano, 28-29 novembre 1987), FasanoFasanoFasano is a town and comune in the province of Brindisi, Apulia, southern Italy.It marks the border between the Altosalento and the province of Bari. It is equidistant from three of the provincial capitals in Puglia, namely Bari, Taranto and Brindisi...
, Schena, 1987 - Domenico Cofano, Il crocevia occulto. Lucini, Nazariantz e la cultura del primo Novecento, Fasano, Schena, 1990.
- Krikor Beledian, Haigagan bakahabashdutiun yev Hrand Nazariantz, (trad. Il futurismo armeno e Hrand Nazariantz), in "Bazmavep", Revue d’etudes armeniennes, Venezia 1990, vol.3-4, (in armeno).
- Huri Khachadarian, Hrand Nazariantz Luyisavor Panasdeghz, (trad. Hrand Nazariantz è un poeta luminoso), in "Azg Daily cultural online", 29/04/2006.
- Paolo Lopane, Hrand Nazariantz, troviero d'Armenia, in "Vie della Tradizione", Anno XXXVII, N. 147 (settembre-dicembre 2007)
- Vartan Matiossian, Letters of Hrand Nazariantz to Yenovk Armen, "Bazmavep: Hayagtakan banasirakan grakan handes", 165, 2007, pp. 323-380
- Asdeghahev Menoutioun, Աստեղահեւ Մենութիւն - Ընտրանի, Yerevan, Sargis Khachents P.H., 2008.
- Krikor Beledian, Haykakan Futurizm - Armenian Futurism, YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
, Sargis Khachents P.H., 2009 - Carlo Coppola, Nazariantz, la storia di un uomo unico vissuto nel Sud, "LSD Magazine", Bari 10/03/2011.
Archives
- ANIMI, Galleria Fotografica A.N.I.M.I. sezione "Nor Arax", animi.it
- Associazione Culturale Centro Studi Hrand Nazariantz, Centro Studi Hrand Nazariantz - Bari
- Centro Ricerche di Storia e Arte - Conversano, L'Archivio Nazariantz, centroricerche.com
Essays
- Carlo Coppola, Hrand Nazariantz, la storia di un uomo unico vissuto nel Sud, lsdmagazine.it
- ՅՈՒՐԻ ԽԱՉԱՏՐՅԱՆ, Hrand Nazariantz. Poeta Luminoso, azg.am
- Paolo Lopane, Hrand Nazariantz, Troviero d'Armenia, lopanepaolo.it
- Vito Ricci, Il legame millenario tra la Puglia e gli Armeni, modugno.it
- Magda Vigilante, Il poeta Hrand Nazariantz e il Villaggio Armeno di Nox Arax, filidaquilone.it, n.9
- Չարչարենց, Հրանտ Նազարյանց` 20-րդ դարասկզբի հայ բանաստեղծ, Ustahrant, 05/07/2010
Video
- Valerio Droga, Nor Arax e Il ritorno della Memoria
- Delta TV, Carlo Coppola parla di Hrand Nazariantz, Casamassima, 15/03/2011, parte 1
- Delta TV, Carlo Coppola parla di Hrand Nazariantz, Casamassima, 15/03/2011, parte 2