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= Maria Teresa Giavieri = Maria Teresa Giaveri (Nibbiano, 22 February 1944) is an Italian writer, translator and scholar.

Biography
Maria Teresa Giaveri was a student of Luigi de Nardis. After graduating in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Milan, she devoted herself to an intense activity as a researcher and translator in the field of European literature (especially French poetry) of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Her academic activity began in 1970, at the Gabriele d'Annunzio University in Pescara, as Professor for French Language and Literature, a role she later held at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", and at the University of Pisa "La Sapienza" (until 1982).

From 1994 to 1997 she worked at the University of Messina, as Full Professor of French Language and Literature. She came back to Naples from 1997 to 2008, as Full Professor of Comparative Literature, always at "L'Orientale" (Faculty of Letters and Philosophy); in 2008 she got tenure of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Turin and she taught there until 2015. In her long academic career, she often worked together with foreign institutes: from 2002 to 2004 she gave a series of lectures, as professeur invité, at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Starting from 1981 she developed a “Writing Atelier” for students at the Universities of Naples and Milan, which went on successfully until 2003.

She also held several university courses about translation in the publishing field: in 1984-85 she did one at the University of Milan, obtaining the collaboration of the major Milanese publishing houses; in 2004-05 she taught in the course "Il Traduttore Letterario", promoted by the Campania Region and the University "L'Orientale" of Naples.

After years of studies and publications about Paul Valéry, in 2014 she published Opere Scelte (Chosen Works) for Meridiani Mondadori. Maria Teresa Giaveri collects in this book the best of the verse and prose’s work of this great poet. She also creates, as a translator, some remarkable metric versions.

Again for Meridiani, she translated the work of the French writer Colette (Romanzi e racconti, Mondadori, 2000).

As a researcher, she was passionate about the comparison between literature and other arts (painting, music, architecture). She wrote brilliant essays about this topic, such as “Dans la forêt sonore, Debussy e l'esperienza parnassiana” (Vv.Aa., Claude Debussy, Milan, Unicopli 1989), “Borges and Dante” (Vv.Aa., Lectura Dantis, Edizioni dell'Università "L'Orientale", 2001) and “Il viso, il naso: fra Marcel Proust e Murasaki Shikibu” (Vv.Aa., La scrittura e il volto, Napoli, Liguori 2006).

As a journalist she worked together with RAI (the national public broadcasting company of Italy) for many years, and she also wrote on the cultural insertions of Corriere della Sera.

Translations

 * Marcel Schwob, Il re dalla maschera d'oro (The King in the Golden Mask), Milano, Sugarco 1983
 * Paul Valéry, Il cimitero marino (Le Cimetière marin), Milano, Il Saggiatore 1984
 * Paul Valéry, La caccia magica (Magic Hunting), Napoli, Guida 1985
 * Paul Valéry, Alphabet, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis 1993
 * Colette, Romanzi e racconti (Novels and short stories), Milano, Mondadori "I Meridiani" 2000
 * Libretto de I racconti di Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffmann), Milano, Edizioni Teatro alla Scala 1994.
 * Heine, Gli Dei in esilio; La Dea Diana, Banville, Diana nel Bosco. Mallarmé, Intermezzo eroico; Monologo, Improvvisazione, Pomeriggio di un Fauno. Valéry, La giovane Parca, in Il Corteggio di Diana, Pisa, ETS 1998
 * Libretto di Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah), Milano, Ediz. Teatro alla Scala 2002
 * Libretto di Carmen, Milano, Edizioni Teatro alla Scala 2004
 * Nicolas Bouvier, L'usage du monde (La polvere del mondo), Reggio Emilia, Diabasis 2004
 * Paul Valéry, Agathe, in M. Russo, L'Incanto, Milano, Skira 2004
 * Luan Starova, Il tempo delle capre (The goats’ time), Napoli, Pironti 2004
 * Gustave Flaubert, Lettere d'amore a Louise Colet (Love letters to Louise Colet), Milano, ES 2008
 * Paul Valéry, Opere scelte (Chosen Works), Milano, Mondadori "I Meridiani" 2014

Hawards and honours

 * Premio Accademia Lombarda di Scienze e Lettere (Lombardy Academy of Sciences and Letters Award) (Milano)
 * Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (Knight of the Academic Palms) (Ministero della Cultura, Francia)

Categories
20th-century Italian writers - 21st-century Italian writers - Italian translators - 1944 births