1. Biagio Marin only employed a few hundred words for his poems.
22 Facts About Biagio Marin
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Biagio Marin was born on 29 June 1891 in the coastal town of Grado, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian county of Gorizia and Gradisca.
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Biagio Marin's family was a middle-class family of modest origins, his father, Antonio Raugna, was an innkeeper.
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Biagio Marin was sent to the gymnasium in Gorz, where his education was in German, there he started to write literary texts in German.
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Biagio Marin started to write for the magazine Voce, which was then the most famous Italian magazine of its time.
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Biagio Marin published the book "Fiuri de tapo", which is the first serious poetry book in the Venetian-Friulian dialect.
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Biagio Marin participated in debates with his friends Umberto Saba and Scipio Slataper in Cafe Aragno about the war, and if artists should go to war.
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Biagio Marin deserted to Italy and was already infected with tuberculosis, but still, he fought as a soldier in the Italian army against the Austrian troops.
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Biagio Marin graduated in philosophy under Bernardino Varisco, the fascistic philosopher Giovanni Gentile whose idealistic doctrine had already exerted a profound influence on him, and was the chairman of the committee.
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Biagio Marin landed a position as Professor at the Scuola Magistrale in Gorz, but had to leave following a dispute about his teaching method with the clergy at the school.
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Biagio Marin's eyesight deteriorated, and for the rest of his life he was nearly blind and deaf After his death his private library was moved to the Biblioteca Civica in Grado.
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Biagio Marin knew the family of Art-deco artist and designer Josef Maria Auchentaller, so well that he wrote about an affair Emma Auchentaller had when the couple visited Grado.
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Biagio Marin's son Falco Marin was a poet and essayist, who died during World War Two in a fight against the Yugoslav partisans in the Province of Ljubljana, Slovenia on 25 July 1943.
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Biagio Marin said that Marin was both brother and father to him.
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Immediately after the death of his friend, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Biagio Marin composed a Cycle of poems called "El critoleo del corpo fracasao" about him.
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Biagio Marin's poems, written in the Venetian language, are about the daily life and simple landscapes of his native land.
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Biagio Marin used the "lingua franca" that the merchants of the city used for his writings.
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Biagio Marin was influenced by Friedrich Holderlin and Heinrich Heine.
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Biagio Marin was now obligated to write in Italian so that everybody in Italian could understand him.
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Biagio Marin was one of the Founders of the Circolo della Cultura e delle Arti.
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Biagio Marin was active for many years as president of the "Circolo di cultura italo-austriaco" in Trieste, and he was among the first leaders of the "Incontri Culturali Mitteleuropei" in Gorizia.
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For Pier Paolo Pasolini, Biagio Marin's poems were the greatest Italian verses written in a contemporary dialect.