Department for Croatian studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka
Abstract
Gino Antony (Antoni ili Antonj) (Trst, 1877. – Casalecchio sul Reno, 1948.) bio je pjesnik, prozaist i dramski pisac. Premda se rodio u Trstu, smatrao se adoptivnim Riječačninom, jer je u Rijeci proživio gotovo cijeli život. Još je kao student u Sieni izdao zbirku novela Fiori di campo (1899), a u Rijeci je započeo objavljivati u La Voce del Popolo gdje je kao vrstan poznavalac gradskih prilika i uspješni pisac elzevira obrađivao različite teme iz gradskog života. Njegov glavni interes bio je vezan uz kazalište i glazbu. Bio je animator kulturno-
-umjetničkog društva Società Filarmonico-drammatica, središta iz kojeg je isijavao riječki kulturni iredentizam. Napisao je pet komedija na talijanskome jeziku: Eroi senza gloria (1904), Poveri illusi (1905), La prima e l’ultima (1905), Aria nuova (1905) i Anime schiave (1906). Također je napisao dvije dijalektalne komedije (El ritorno i El zogo) koje nažalost nisu nikada izdane.
Antony je, međutim, bio poznatiji kao dijalektalni pjesnik. Tako je preuzeo pseudonim „Cavaliere di Garbo” i kod tiskara Battare (1907) objavio dijalektalnu zbirku Sonetti fiumani koji predstavljaju njegov najvažniji doprinos povijesti riječke književnosti. Njegovi soneti često su objavljivani u riječkome tisku toga doba i velik dio njih nadahnut je dnevnom politikom. U njima autor vješto koristi različite registre: opisni, sentimentalni, nostalgični i kritički, u nekoj vrsti iskrivljenog ili pročišćenog dijalekta.
Budući da nam danas nisu dostupna sva pisana djela Gina Antonyja, cilj je ovoga rada pružiti uvid u stvaralački opus toga pisca kroz presjek riječkoga tiska tog razdoblja.Gino Antony (Trieste, 1877 – Casalecchio sul Reno, 1948) was a poet, prose writer and playwright. Although he was born in Trieste, he was considered an adoptive of Rijeka as he had lived there almost all his life. As a student in Siena he published a collection of poems Fiori di campo (1899). In Rijeka he started publishing texts in ‘La Voce del Popolo’ in which he described urban conditions and he was a successful writer of ‘elzevirs’ dealing with different topics of urban life. His main interest was related to the theatre and music. He was an animator of the arts club Società Filarmonico-drammatica, the centre from which Rijeka cultural irredentism radiated. He wrote five comedies in Italian: Eroi senza gloria (1904), Poveri illusi (1905), La prima e l’ultima (1905), Aria nuova (1905) and Anime schiave (1906). He also wrote two dialectal comedies (El ritorno and El zogo) that, unfortunately, were never published.
However, Antony was better known as a dialectal poet. So he took the pseudonym ‘Cavaliere di Garbo’, and the editor Battara (1907) published his dialectal collection Sonetti fiumani which represents his most significant contribution to the history of Rijeka literature. His sonnets were often published in the Rijeka press of that time, and a great many of them were inspired by the daily politics. In them, the author masterfully uses different registers: descriptive, sentimental, nostalgic, and critical, in a kind of distorted or purified dialect.
Since not all of Gino Antony’s works are available today, the aim of this paper is to provide an insight into his works through a press section of Italian periodicals from this period
