NOVARO, ANGELO-SILVIO. - Writer and poet, b. at Diano Marina on 12 Nov. 1868, d. at Imperia on 10 March 1938.

N. began his activity very early, and found his best inspiration in singing of his son Jacopo, who fell at a very young age in the First World War. N. is an artist of a formal finish that only in his best works, such as the prose of Il fabbro armonioso (Milan 1919) and the lyrics of Piccolo Orfeo (ibid. 1929), touches accents of a discreetly spiritual kind. A writer of a lingering and collected vein, he succeeded effectively especially in composing for children, and poured his best qualities into the delicate correspondences and vignettes of a child's world. Also to be remembered, among his works, are the poems of Il cestello (ibid. 1910), the tales of La bottega dello stregone (ibid. 1910), and the prose of Dio è qui (ibid. 1926). In the lyrical poem La Madre di Gesù (ibid. 1936) he evoked the life of the Virgin with accents of sincere emotion.

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BIBL.: G. Ravegnani, La poesia candida di A. S. N., in I contemporanei, 2nd series, Modena 1936, pp. 101-12; G. De Luca, Necrologia, in Nuova Antologia, 2 (1938), pp. 238-40; F. Sapori, A. S. N., Rome 1939.

Ferruccio Ulivi

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