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MENOTTI DEL PICCHIA

 

Paulo Menotti Del Picchia, filho dos italianos Luís Del Picchia e Co­rEna Del Corso Del Picchia, nasceu na cidade de São Paulo a 20 de mar­ço de 1892. Ainda menino mudou-se para ltapira/ SP, onde fez o curso primário. O secundário foi feito em Campinas/SP e Pouso Alegre/ MG. Nesta cidade, aos 16 anos, fundou e dirigiu “O Mandu”, um pequeno jornal do ginásio local. Formou-se pela Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo em 1913, ano em que publicou seu livro de estréia. Em Itapira exerceu a advocacia e publicou o jornal “0 Grito”. Nesta mesma cidade escreveu e publicou o poema “Juca Mulato”, obra que lhe deu notoriedade in­ternacional. Em 1922, com Mário e Oswald de Andrade, liderou o Mo­vimento Modernista Brasileiro, sendo um dos promotores da Semana de Arte Moderna, realizada no Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, em feve­reiro daquele ano. Fundou e dirigiu revistas ejornais em São Paulo. Au­tor de dezenas de livros dos mais variados gêneros, pertenceu às Aca­demias Paulista e Brasileira de Letras. Foi eleito “Intelectual do Ano”, em 1968. Em 1982foi proclamado “Príncipe dos Poetas Brasileiros”. Foi ainda pintor, escultor e, como político, foi por três vezes Deputado Federal e duas Deputado Estadual, sempre por São Paulo. Itapira deu o nome de “Juca Mulato” a um parque e o nome do poeta a uma praça. Instalou, também, o memorial “Casa de Menotti Del Picchia”. O poeta morreu em São Paulo a 23 de agosto de 1988, com 96 anos.

 JÁCOMO MAN DATTO Diretor da “Casa de Menotti Del Picchia”

 


 

MENOTTI DEL PICCHIA

 

Paulo Menotti Del Picchia — son of the Italian couple: Luís Del Picchia and Corina Del Corso Del Picchia — was born in São Paulo city on March 20, 1892. Still a boy, he moved to Itapira city, São Paulo State, where he took his primary education course. The secondary school was taken in Campinas city, São Paulo State and in Pouso Alegre city, Minas Gerais State. In the latter, he founded and directed “O Mandu” — a modest newspaper of the local secondary school — when he was 16 years old. He graduated from the Law School Õf São Paulo in 1913 when he published his first book. In the city of Itapira he performed the profession of lawyer and published the newspaper entitled “O Grito”. In the same city he wrote and published the poem “Juca Mulato” which gave him international recognition. In 1922 — with Mário and Oswald de Andrade — he headed up the Brazilian Modernist Movement and was one of the promoters of the Modern Art Week that was held in São Paulo Municipal Theatre in February that year. He has founded and directed magazines and newspapers in São Paulo. Author of many books in the most diverse sorts he has belonged to São Paulo and Brazil Literature Academies. He was elected “Intelectual of the Year” in 1968. In 1982 he was declared “Prince of Brazilian Poets”. He has also been painter, sculptor and, as a politician, he has been Federal Deputy three times and State Deputy twice, always for São Paulo. Itapira city gave the name of “Juca Mulato” to a park and the poet’s name to a public square. It has also built the memorial “Casa de Menotti Del Picchia”. The poet passed in São Paulo on August 23, 1988 at the age of 96.

 JACOMO MANDATTO Director “House of Menotti Del Picchia”

 

 

 


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