Giorgio Orelli was a post-
hermetic poet. In the
anthology of
Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation.[2] Called the
Tuscan from
Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism".[3]
He was also known as a translator of
Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura). His cousin
Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet.
Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier
Michela Figini.
Poetic works
Né bianco né viola,
Lugano, Collana di
Lugano, 1944.
Prima dell'anno nuovo,
Bellinzona, Leins e Vescovi, 1952.
Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni,
Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.