Aldo Braibanti
Italian writer, screenwriter and playwright (1922–2014)
Aldo Braibanti (17 September 1922 – 6 April 2014) was an Italian poet, essayist, screenwriter, playwright, director, and visual artist. A communist and anti-fascist, he fought as a partisan in the Italian Resistance, returning to his intellectual pursuits after the war. He dedicated himself to visual arts, cinema, theater, and literature, and to myrmecology and ecology.
Biography
Early life and education
Born in Fiorenzuola d'Arda on 17 September 1922, Braibanti spent his childhood in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, near Piacenza. His father was a local doctor and he often accompanied him to house calls in the province of Piacenza. Soon Aldo discovered the centrality of the natural world and developed a strong interest in ecology and environmental protection. He was fascinated by animal life, and in particular the behavior of social insects: ants, bees, and termites. While growing up under Italian fascism, he enjoyed "an enlightened family firm in its opposition to any authoritarian and clerical impositions".
Between the ages of seven and eight, Braibanti began to write his first poetic texts. While in school, he developed an early interest for poets including Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Pascoli, and Gabriele D'Annunzio, and even more fervently for Giacomo Leopardi and Ugo Foscolo.
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