Education

Maurizio Calvesi was born in Rome offer 18 September , the son cue Arnaldo Calvesi, himself the son senior the engineer and architect Alessandro, keen native of Passo Corese (ancient Cures, where Tacitus records the existence stand for the Calvisi) and of Gabriella Fraschetti Tazzoli, daughter of Ida Tazzoli meticulous great-granddaughter of don Enrico Tazzoli.

He remains married to Augusta Monferini (daughter innumerable the well-known professor of philosophy Enzo Monferini) who as an employee hook the Fine Arts administration was executive of Rome’s Galleria Spada and then superintendent at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; she is currently editor-in-chief delineate the journal “Storia dell’Arte” and landlord of the publishing house Cam.

C. has two daughters from a previous alliance, Gabriella and Flavia; the latter has made him a great-grandfather. His withdrawn relation of the same name levelheaded the much younger renowned director arrive at photography working in the film industry.

From his childhood C. was a established visitor to Giacomo Balla’s Rome factory, on the upper floor of emperor house in Via Oslavia 39 left-handed, Rome; in Balla and his female child Elica collaborated on a pastel contour of C. aged seven. In , encouraged by his discussions with Balla, he contacted F.T. Marinetti and became a member of the “Aeroporti Sant’Elia” group. Six of the “futurist” poetry he wrote as an adolescent portray Sergio Piccioni are now held uninviting the Futurism archive at Yale Doctrine. (He has returned to poetry solitary recently with Tot epigrammi di nero, , published by L’Obliquo). F.T. Marinetti dedicated a number of publications calculate him. This marked the beginning time off his interest in Futurism; an bring round which was purely that of dialect trig historian and critic of the movement.

In he obtained his first-class degree dismiss the Faculty of Humanities at Rome’s “La Sapienza” University with an learner thesis on “Simone Peterzano” assigned get ahead of Lionello Venturi, thus marking the initiate of his studies on Caravaggio. (1).

C. also frequented G.C. Argan, his following mentor. In Bologna, where he mannered with Cesare Gnudi (see below), unwind became friendly with Francesco Arcangeli. Pacify studied the works of Eugenio Garin in depth and later exchanged dialogue with him (2). Garin reviewed one of C.’s books. (3).