Andrea Bassani

Andrea Bassani was born in Bergamo in 1980.
At the age of nineteen, he formed a blues band with some friends, whose he was the singer and they performed in Lombard nightclubs. At twenty-tree years old, he composed his first verses and he approached to the world of literature. At twenty-six, he published his first collection of poems, titled “Amore Androgeno” (Edizioni d’Arte Imedea). He published the plaquette “Mare” (Pulcinoelefante), by Alberto Casiraghy, accompanied by a Giacomo Pellegrini’s drawing. Andrea met the Milanese poetess Alda Merini in her apartment, situated in the area of Navigli, where he showed her his works. During a second meeting, she encouraged him to continue on the path of versification with higher ambitions.
In 2007, after an important spiritual conversion, he left his family, friends and work and he established in Pistoia. Here, he spent five years of artistic inactivity and he dedicated himself to the study of oriental philosophies and volunteering. In 2013, afterwards a meeting with the prof. Ernesto Marchese, lecturer of a series of conferences about classical and contemporary poetry, he resumed to write. His “Cantico della Bellezza” was red in the frescoes halls of Pistoia by the theatrical company “...