Giovanni Raboni [SEP] place of death
poetry), "Quare tristis" (1998), and "Barlumi di Storia" (2002).
Giovanni Raboni died of a heart attack in Parma in 2004. He is buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.
His wife, poet Patrizia Valduga, wrote the afterword to his last poetry collection "Ultimi versi", published posthumously in 2006; one of his last poems is "Canzone del danno e della beffa" ("Song of the harm and the hoax"), also published posthumous on
Giovanni Raboni
Giovanni Raboni (22 January 1932 – 16 September 2004) was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.
Biography.
Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after the first bombings of Milan, the family moved to Sant'Ambrogio Olona, near Varese, where Raboni concluded his primary and intermediate school. His father's love for French and Russian classics made him read and appreciate Proust, Dickens, Dostoevskij and