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Tavolozza
Tavolozza
- GenresPoetry
84 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1862
About the author
Emilio Praga
27 books3 followersEmilio Praga (18 December 1839 – 26 December 1875) was an Italian writer, painter, poet and librettist. He belongs to the artistic movement Scapigliatura. He was the father of the artist Marco Praga.
Born in a rich family of industrialists, he traveled around Europe in his youth, in particular in Paris where he studied Baudelaire, Hugo, Nerval, De Musset and started painting.
Back in Milan, he get in touch with the movement of Scapigliatura and refused the hypocrisy of his bourgeois heritage. After the death of his father he started to live in a bohemian style in poverty and soon he got problems with alcohol and drugs. He wrote four book of poems full of bleak and macabre images; he also started a novel (Memorie del presbiterio) but remains unfinished until it was finished by his friend Roberto Sacchetti. He died poor and almost completely alone in 1875 at 36.
Born in a rich family of industrialists, he traveled around Europe in his youth, in particular in Paris where he studied Baudelaire, Hugo, Nerval, De Musset and started painting.
Back in Milan, he get in touch with the movement of Scapigliatura and refused the hypocrisy of his bourgeois heritage. After the death of his father he started to live in a bohemian style in poverty and soon he got problems with alcohol and drugs. He wrote four book of poems full of bleak and macabre images; he also started a novel (Memorie del presbiterio) but remains unfinished until it was finished by his friend Roberto Sacchetti. He died poor and almost completely alone in 1875 at 36.
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