Luigi Strano further papers, 1930-1997

MLMSS 8083

fonds

1930-1997

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

152529

0.17 metres of textual material and 5 photographs (1 box)

Luigi Strano (1913-2009), Australia's foremost Italo-Australian poet, was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to Australia in 1930. Prior to World War II he was involved in farming projects in western Sydney, and also began teaching Italian for the Dante Alighieri Society and Berlitz School. From 1940 he also worked as an official court interpreter and translator. He never married and lived at St Johns Park, near Fairfield. He bought a property at Mount Wilson in 1971, where he lived with his sister, Elvira. Largely self-taught, Strano drew much of his inspiration from Dante and the Classical Latin poets. He maintained a regular correspondence with the Italian Latin and Dante scholars, fellow Calabrian Giuseppe Morabito and Professor Giovanni Giraldi at the University of Milan. In 1985 Strano was founding president of the Italo-Australian Writers' Association and also received an Honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Wollongong for his contributions to Australia's literary culture.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Journals, nos 1-13, in spiral-bound notebooks with enclosures, 5 May 1989-12 Dec. 1996. Contents in Italian, English, Latin, Greek, French and German, and include diary entries, literary notes and commentary, poems, quotations, and memoir

No. 1. Journal, 5 May 1989 – 20 Nov. 1989, pp. 1-58
No. 2. Journal, 20 Nov. 1989 – 27 Apr. 1990, pp. 59-118
No. 3. Journal, 28 Apr. 1990 – 25 Mar. 1991, pp. 119-190
No. 4. Journal, 25 Mar. – 20 Dec. 1991, pp. 191-249
No. 5. Journal, 21 Dec. 1991-31 July 1992, pp. 250-308
No. 6. Journal, 1 Aug. 1992 – 19 Oct. 1993, pp. 309-417
No. 7. Journal, 19 Oct. 1993 – 28 May 1994, pp. 418-486
No. 8. Journal, 28 May – 6 Dec. 1994, pp. 487-542
No. 9. Journal, 6 Dec. 1994 – 18 May 1995, pp. 543-612
No. 10. Journal, 19 May 1995 – 9 Dec. 1995, pp. 613-670
No. 11. Journal, 10 Dec. 1995 – 26 Mar. 1996, pp. 671-729
No. 12. Journal, 26 Mar. – 4 Sept. 1996, pp. 730-787
No. 13. Journal, 5 Sept. – 12 Dec. 1996, pp. 788-847

Correspondence with Professor Giuseppe Morabito, 1983-1997

Correspondence with Professor Giovanni Giraldi, 1994-1997

Correspondence, 1946, 1985-1995, including letters received from Nicholas Pounder, bookseller, 30 June 1989 and Alfredo Strano, author and Luigi's cousin, 30 Oct. 1995; with Luigi Strano’s Mitchell Library reader’s ticket, 16 Oct. 1939 – 15 Apr. 1940

Photographs, 1930-ca. 1967, of Luigi Strano and friends; Luigi and brother, Michelangelo, taken shortly after his arrival in Sydney, Feb. 1930; and Luigi as a Committee member of the Club Marconi, Bossley Park, seated with Livio Benedetti, Don Dunstan, Carmelo Pantano and Gough Whitlam, ca. 1967

Italian, Greek, Modern (1453- ), Latin, German, French

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Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which Luigi Strano owns copyright