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Timeline of Swiss Literature in Italian Language

In this small cultural region, the literature is very closely connected with that of neighboring Italy. Until 1798, the canton of Ticino was a subject territory of German-speaking cantons, and a written literature developed relatively late.

Epoch	Writer	Lifetime	Major Works
Pre-War	Francesco Chiesa	1871-1973	Tempo di marzo (novel, 1925)
	Angelo Nessi
	Piero Bianconi college professor, translator, art historian	Minusio, 1899-06-01 Minusio, 1984-06-05	Ritagli (1935); La Svizzera Italiana nell’arte e nella natura (1942); Croci e rascane (1943); Albero genealogico (1969); Occhi sul Ticino (1972)
	Giuseppe Zoppi
Post-War poetry	Giorgio Orelli		poetry
	Remo Fasani		poetry
	Angelo Casè		poetry
	Alberto Nessi		poetry
Post-War fiction
	Anna Gnesa high school teacher, writer	Brione Verzasca, 1904 - 1986	Questa valle (1974); Lungo la Strada (1978)
	Felice Filippini
	Plinio Martini
	Giovanni Orelli
	Alice Ceresa
	Giovanni Bonalumi
	Anna Felder
	Fleur Jaeggy
	Elda Guidinetti
Post-War works in Ticinese dialect	Alina Borioli
	Giovanni Bianconi	1891-1981	Ofell dal specc (1944); Un güst da pan da segra (1986)
	Ugo Canonica	Willisau, 1918-12-02 Lugano, 2003-05-21	works in standard Italian: La voce del padre (prose, 1945); Poesie (poems, 1968); La vita è tutta (1975). La storia dei Filanda (1948); La luce era in soffitta (1951); La ninfea del lago: Leggende del Luganese (1951); I falò di Santa Brigida: Racconti (short stories, 1954); poetry in Swiss Italian dialect: Na medaia de finte argente : Poesie in dialetto di Bidogno (1959); Le sere dei vecchi (1963); Nuove poesie (1965); Undici poesie (1967); Le carte: (1971); Gherengh garangh (1979) To vì. A vigh (1986); R imbiugh (1994); I predè e i nosance (1997); In sto monde tonde tonde (2001).


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