MUCCI, Renato (Roma, 1893 - Roma, 1976)Prose

Renato Mucci (Rome, 1893 - Rome, 1976) was a poet, translator and journalist. As a translator, he is remembered for being the first translator of Proust in Italy: in 1924 he translated a chapter of the Recherche in the magazine L'Esame. His critical writings dedicated, among others, to Charles Baudelaire, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Marcel Proust, and Paul Verlaine, have appeared in various magazines and newspapers of the 20th century: Cronache d'attualità, Capitolium, Il Caffè, Meridiano, L'Italia Letteraria, Primato, Idea, Dialoghi, La Fiera Letteraria and Il Popolo. 
His first poetry collections date back to the 1920s and 1930s when he published the collection Natura morta, Gobetti, 1925 and above all Poesie, Edizioni del Cavallino by Carlo Cardazzo, 1938, which marked a remarkable evolution of his poetics. Again for Edizioni del Cavallino, he published his first collection of prose in 1941. 
Mucci also devoted himself to theatre with a ballet to the music of Ezio Carabella, Un sorso di tornamore, performed in the 1922-1923 season at Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Teatro degli Indipendenti and with a stage production of Leopard's dialogue Federico Ruysch e delle sue mummie.
In 1964, Renato Mucci founded the Roman Institute of Higher Pataphysical Studies in Rome with Leonardo Sinisgalli and Giambattista Vicari. The three founders became Regents of the chairs of Rogmology (Vicari), Extralegal Grammaturgy (Sinisgalli) and Roman Pataphysics and Messalinology (Mucci).