Biography of Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini was born in Modena on 14th June 1940, but spent the first few years of his life at his paternal grandfather's home in Pavana, a small town in the Apennine mountains in the province of Pistoia. In 1945, Francesco returned with his family to Modena, where he attended school.
After working for a couple of years as a reporter for La Gazzetta di Modena, he moved with his parents to Bologna and enrolled at the University, where he passed all the exams but never finished his degree. Nonetheless, from 1965 to 1985 he held Italian courses for American students at the Dickinson College in Bologna.
In the late 1950s he began writing songs (for example, his famous Il sociale e l'antisociale dates from 1961). In 1967 he made his debut album, Folk Beat N.1. This was the first in a series of eighteen albums of original songs all released by EMI, the most memorable of which include L'isola non trovata (1970), Radici (1973; containing his best-known songs such as La locomotiva, Piccola città, Canzone della bambina portoghese and Il vecchio e il bambino), Via Paolo Fabbri 43 (1976), Metropolis (1981), Signora Bovary (1987), Quello che non... (1990), D'amore di morte e di altre sciocchezze (1996), and the recently-released Stagioni (2000).
A man of many talents, he made his literary debut with Croniche Epifaniche (Feltrinelli, 1989), followed by Vacca d'un cane (Feltrinelli, 1993), Racconti d'inverno (Mondadori, 1994; with Giorgio Celli and Valerio Massimo Manfredi) and La legge del bar e altre storie (Comix, 1996). Finally, Macaronì (Mondadori, 1997) and Un disco dei Platters (Mondadori, 1998) are two noir genre novels written in conjunction with Loriano Macchiavelli. He has also won the Librex-Guggenheim Eugenio Montale prize in the Versi in musica section and written comic-scripts for Magnus (Lo sconosciuto) and Bonvi. He now lives in Bologna, although he often thinks of moving to his childhood town of Pavana, a place he is so attached to that he has compiled a dictionary of its local dialect.

Biography of Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini was born in Modena on 14th June 1940, but spent the first few years of his life at his paternal grandfather's home in Pavana, a small town in the Apennine mountains in the province of Pistoia. In 1945, Francesco returned with his family to Modena, where he attended school.
After working for a couple of years as a reporter for La Gazzetta di Modena, he moved with his parents to Bologna and enrolled at the University, where he passed all the exams but never finished his degree. Nonetheless, from 1965 to 1985 he held Italian courses for American students at the Dickinson College in Bologna.
In the late 1950s he began writing songs (for example, his famous Il sociale e l'antisociale dates from 1961). In 1967 he made his debut album, Folk Beat N.1. This was the first in a series of eighteen albums of original songs all released by EMI, the most memorable of which include L'isola non trovata (1970), Radici (1973; containing his best-known songs such as La locomotiva, Piccola città, Canzone della bambina portoghese and Il vecchio e il bambino), Via Paolo Fabbri 43 (1976), Metropolis (1981), Signora Bovary (1987), Quello che non... (1990), D'amore di morte e di altre sciocchezze (1996), and the recently-released Stagioni (2000).
A man of many talents, he made his literary debut with Croniche Epifaniche (Feltrinelli, 1989), followed by Vacca d'un cane (Feltrinelli, 1993), Racconti d'inverno (Mondadori, 1994; with Giorgio Celli and Valerio Massimo Manfredi) and La legge del bar e altre storie (Comix, 1996). Finally, Macaronì (Mondadori, 1997) and Un disco dei Platters (Mondadori, 1998) are two noir genre novels written in conjunction with Loriano Macchiavelli. He has also won the Librex-Guggenheim Eugenio Montale prize in the Versi in musica section and written comic-scripts for Magnus (Lo sconosciuto) and Bonvi. He now lives in Bologna, although he often thinks of moving to his childhood town of Pavana, a place he is so attached to that he has compiled a dictionary of its local dialect.