Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guar
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Voltaire
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In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clever verses by the age of 12. He launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Upon a second imprisonment, in which Francois adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. There he wrote Lettres philosophiques (1733), which galvanized French reform. The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God. Voltaire wrote: "The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the exi -
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes -
Giorgio Saviane
Giorgio Saviane (Castelfranco Veneto, 1916 – Firenze, 2000) è stato uno scrittore italiano.
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Oltre alle lacerazioni psicologiche, nella narrativa di Saviane è ben riconoscibile una forte carica ideologica che «tocca, alle radici, i motivi della solitudine esistenziale, dell'angosciante presenza del male e del dolore, dei totem e dei tabù di una società massificata, del rebus-Dio, del rapporto con l'Altro, del mistero e dell'orrore della morte eterna.».
Il romanzo Il Papa (1963) fu finalista al Premio Strega e vincitore del Campiello.
Dal romanzo Eutanasia di un amore edito nel 1976 fu tratto due anni dopo il film omonimo, diretto da Enrico Maria Salerno, che suscitò reazioni controverse. Il libro fu invece premiato con il Premio Bancarella ne -
Emilio Salgari
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Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salgari. He wrote more than two hundred short stories and novels, many of which are considered classics. Setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures, Mr. Salgari brought the wonders of the world to the doorstep of generations of readers. -
Ugo Foscolo
Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
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In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste--a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Primo Levi
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 1919, he studied chemistry at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. During World War II, Levi joined the Italian resistance, but was captured by Fascist forces in 1943. Because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where he endured ten harrowing months before being liberated by the Red army.
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After the war, Levi returned to Turin and resumed work as a chemist, but also began writing about his experiences. His first book, If This Is a Man (published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz), is widely regar -
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Giacomo Leopardi
Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
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Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. -
Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.
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Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, Buber became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In 1923 Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
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Giorgio Faletti
Artista poliedrico non ha mai smesso di dare prova della sua capacità di spaziare da un campo artistico all’altro. Come comico ha lasciato una forte impronta nel panorama della comicità creando una serie di personaggi indimenticabili protagonisti di alcune fortunate serie televisive come Drive In, Emilio e Fantastico 90.
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Anche come musicista Giorgio Faletti ha ottenuto negli anni numerosi consensi. Ha cominciato pubblicando in proprio diversi album di successo.
Nel 1994, con la canzone Signor Tenente, si è aggiudicato il secondo posto e il Premio della Critica al Festival di San Remo. Sono nate in seguito le collaborazioni con alcuni grandi artisti della musica leggera italiana: ha scritto canzoni per Mina, Milva, Gigliola Cinquetti e i versi -
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to under the epithets Il Vate ("the Poet") or Il Profeta ("the Prophet").
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D'Annunzio combined in his work naturalism, symbolism, and erotic images, becoming the best interpreter of European Decadence in post-Risorgimento Italy.
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Elio Vittorini
Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
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Vittorini was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and throughout his childhood moved around Sicily with his father, a railroad worker. Several times he ran away from home, culminating in his leaving Sicily for good in 1924. For a brief period, he found employment as a constr -
Federigo Tozzi
Federigo Tozzi was the son of an innkeeper. He first worked as a railway official, then took over running his father's inn. In 1911 he published his first book of poetry. In 1913 he began to work on his first novel, Con gli occhi chiusi ("With closed eyes"), a highly autobiographical text. In this year, he also founded the magazine La Torre. Tozzi then became a journalist in Rome. Through his literary activity, he caught the attention of the writer Luigi Pirandello, who subsequently supported him. Tozzi died 1920 in Rome of influenza and pneumonia.
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow.
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In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodg -
Ignazio Silone
Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 partecipa a Livorno alla fondazione del Partito Comunista (che rappresenta a Mosca, con Togliatti, nel Komintern), ma se ne stacca nel 1930, in disaccordo con le purghe staliniane. Antifascista, resta in esilio in Svizzera dal 1930 al 1945, anni durante i quali matura la sua vocazione di scrittore. Pubblicato in traduzione tedesca a Zurigo nel 1933, “Fontamara” è il suo romanzo d’esordio, che lo impone a
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Italo Svevo
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement. -
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni, meglio noto semplicemente come Alessandro Manzoni (Milano, 7 marzo 1785 – Milano, 22 maggio 1873), è stato uno scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo italiano.
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Considerato uno dei maggiori romanzieri italiani di tutti i tempi per il suo celebre romanzo I promessi sposi, caposaldo della letteratura italiana, Manzoni ebbe il merito principale di aver gettato le basi per il romanzo moderno e di aver così patrocinato l'unità linguistica italiana, sulla scia di quella letteratura moralmente e civilmente impegnata propria dell'Illuminismo italiano.
Alessandro Manzoni was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked -
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
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Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco -
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
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1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a philosopher, musician, and poet, wrote plays. He figured centrally in component of the Renaissance, and people most widely know his realist treatises on the one hand and republicanism of Discourses on Livy .
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Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
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Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs". -
Italo Svevo
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement. -
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
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Beppe Fenoglio
Beppe Fenoglio (born Giuseppe Fenoglio) was an Italian writer. His work was published in a critical edition after his death, but controversy remains about his book Johnny the Partisan, often considered his best work, which was published posthumously and incomplete in 1968.
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The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the partisan war; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato (this was published posthumously too in 1969).
The novel was turned down by Elio Vittorini who advised Fenoglio to carve out stories and then incorporate them into the The twenty-three days of the city of Alba (1952). These stories were a chronicle of the -
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni, meglio noto semplicemente come Alessandro Manzoni (Milano, 7 marzo 1785 – Milano, 22 maggio 1873), è stato uno scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo italiano.
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Considerato uno dei maggiori romanzieri italiani di tutti i tempi per il suo celebre romanzo I promessi sposi, caposaldo della letteratura italiana, Manzoni ebbe il merito principale di aver gettato le basi per il romanzo moderno e di aver così patrocinato l'unità linguistica italiana, sulla scia di quella letteratura moralmente e civilmente impegnata propria dell'Illuminismo italiano.
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Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
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Gabriele d'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to under the epithets Il Vate ("the Poet") or Il Profeta ("the Prophet").
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D'Annunzio combined in his work naturalism, symbolism, and erotic images, becoming the best interpreter of European Decadence in post-Risorgimento Italy.
His love affairs, relationship with the world-famous actress Eleanora Duse, heroic adventures during World War I, and his occupation of Fiume in 1919 made him a legend in his own time. -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaign -
Ugo Foscolo
Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
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In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste--a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران ) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
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Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written -
Carlo Lucarelli
Carlo Lucarelli was born at Parma, the son of a physician. He was interested in literature and theatre when he was young, and studied Literature and History. Nowadays he lives in Mordano near Bologna.
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Already in his years of study, during his research for his thesis subject he got in touch with the material for his first two books, which take place during the time of fascism and the years immediately after the war. In Italy he became well known quite soon because of these two books, and it was only a matter of time before he quit his academic activities and turned to his career as an author and all other sorts of activities, such as writing plays, film scenarios, radio-plays and, moreover, singing in a Post-Punk-Band called "Progetto K".
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Emanuele Atturo
Emanuele Atturo è caporedattore della rivista «l'Ultimo Uomo» e scrive di sport e cultura. Il suo primo libro è Roger Federer è esistito davvero (66thand2nd 2021) e ha partecipato alle antologie di racconti La caduta dei campioni (Einaudi 2020) e Rivali (Einaudi 2022). Sempre per Einaudi ha pubblicato Visionari. La percezione alterata degli sportivi (2024).
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Heinrich Schliemann
Was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.
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Alessandro D'Avenia
Alessandro D’Avenia, born in 1977 in Palermo, holds a PhD in classics and is a high school literature teacher and screenwriter.
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D'Avenia nasce il 2 maggio 1977 da Rita e Giuseppe D'Avenia, terzo di sei figli. Dal 1990 frequenta il liceo classico Vittorio Emanuele II di Palermo, dove incontra padre Pino Puglisi che insegnava religione nello stesso istituto e dalla cui figura viene fortemente influenzato, così come da quella dell'insegnante di lettere.
Nel 1995 si trasferisce a Roma per frequentare all'Università La Sapienza la facoltà di lettere classiche. Nel 2000 si laurea in lettere classiche. Nel 2004 consegue il dottorato di ricerca in letteratura greca con specializzazione in Antropologia del mondo antico, terminandolo con una tesi sulle -
Vittorio Alfieri
Works, including 19 tragedies, of Italian playwright Conte Vittorio Alfieri influenced nationalism.
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Carlo Cassola
(Roma, 1917 - Montecarlo di Lucca, 1987)
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Frequenta il Ginnasio-Liceo "Tasso" e in seguito l'"Umberto I", per poi iscriversi, nel 1935, alla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’ Università di Roma. L’attività letteraria era già cominciata negli anni ’30: tra il ’37 e il ’40, egli aveva licenziato diversi racconti, (alcuni dei quali pubblicati sulle riviste “Meridiano di Roma” e “Letteratura”), in seguito riuniti nel volume “La visita” (1942). Pare evidente, negli scritti succitati, la suggestione dei “Dublinesi” di Joyce (“In Joyce scoprii il primo scrittore che concentrasse la sua attenzione su quegli aspetti della vita che per me erano sempre stati i più importanti e di cui gli altri sembravano non accorgersi nemmeno”), primo passo verso quella -
Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern was an Italian author and World War II veteran.
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His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 (and the following year in English as The Sergeant in the Snow), draws on his own experience as a Sergeant Major in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in the World War II. It is his only work to be translated into English and Spanish.
Other well-known works also include Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo's Seasons), Storia di Tönle (The Story of Tönle), and the collection of short stories Sentieri sotto la neve (Paths Beneath the Snow).
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Anosh Irani
Anosh Irani is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright.
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His novels and plays have garnered much critical and popular acclaim and he is considered to be a rising star in Canadian literature.
He was born and grew up in Mumbai, India in a Parsi family of relatively recent Persian origin (hence the surname Irani), but now makes his home in Vancouver, Canada.
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Paolo Alessandrini
Paolo Alessandrini, nato a Verona nel 1971, si è laureato in Ingegneria Informatica presso l’Università di Padova discutendo una tesi sperimentale su un algoritmo euristico, che ha vinto nel 1999 il premio nazionale Camerini-Carraresi. Con l’Università di Padova ha collaborato a progetti di ricerca di matematica computazionale, e nel 2010 è stato correlatore di una tesi di laurea specialistica in Ingegneria Gestionale.
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È docente di ruolo di matematica presso il Liceo Scientifico e Istituto Tecnico “Max Planck” di Villorba (TV).
Ha tenuto numerosi corsi e interventi di formazione, anche per enti accreditati MIUR, tra cui Unione Matematica Italiana, Tokalon, Redooc, Ambito 9 della Regione Lombardia, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Istituto C -
Matilde Serao
Matilde Serao (Italian pronunciation: [maˈtilde seˈraːo]; March 7, 1856 – 25 July 1927) was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the founder and editor of Il Mattino, and she also wrote several novels.
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Pierdomenico Baccalario
P.D. BACCALARIO was born in Acqui Terme, a beautiful little town in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. He grew up in the middle of the woods with his three dogs and his black bicycle. He loves seeing new places and discovering new lifestyles, although, in the end, he always returns to the comfort of familiar ones.
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Franco Lucentini
Franco Lucentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. With his friend Carlo Fruttero he formed the editorial team known as Fruttero & Lucentini, particularly notable for their curation of the Urania series of fantascienza (science-fiction) compilations from 1964 to 1985.
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Luigi Capuana
Luigi Capuana was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the Verist movement. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other. He was also one of the first authors influenced by the works of Émile Zola, French author and creator of Naturalism.
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Emilio Lussu
Avvocato, scrittore, leader politico e leggendario combattente; figura di grande rilievo della cultura sarda e italiana. Nacque ad Armungia nel 1890 da una famiglia di piccoli proprietari terrieri. Gli fu impartita un'educazione di tipo tradizionale, fatto da lui sempre ricordato con commozione e orgoglio. Si laureò a Cagliari in giurisprudenza. Partecipò alla prima guerra mondiale come ufficiale di complemento della Brigata "Sassari", distinguendosi per lo straordinario coraggio, l'umanità ed il grande carisma.
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Rientrato in Sardegna, fu tra i protagonisti del movimento autonomista ex-combattentista, che mirava a riscattare la Sardegna dall'atavica sottomissione. Con importanti personaggi, quali Camillo Bellieni, Pietro Mastino e Paolo Pili, -
Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino (Comiso, Italy, November 15, 1920 - June 14, 1996), was an Italian writer. Born in Comiso (Sicily), he studied literature and was, for most of his life a high-school professor in his hometown. The time spent in an hospital for tuberculosis immediately after World War II provided the material for the novel Diceria dell'untore (The Plague Sower), that, begun in 1950, would be published only in 1981, when, at the age of 61, his friend and celebrated writer Leonardo Sciascia discovered his talents. In 1988, the novel Le menzogne della notte (Night's Lies) won the Strega Prize. In 1990 he won the Nino Martoglio International Book Award. In his native town the Biblioteca di Bufalino ("Bufalino's Library") is now named after him.
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Paolo Volponi
Paolo Volponi was an Italian writer, poet and politician. He is the only author to have won the Strega Prize twice, in 1965 for La macchina mondiale (trans. as The Worldwide Machine) and in 1991 for La strada per Roma. In 1960, he won the Viareggio Prize for Le porte dell'Appennino and in 1986 the Mondello Prize for Con testo a fronte.
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Tomaso Montanari
Sono nato nel 1971 a Firenze, dove vivo. Studio l’arte dell’età barocca e la storia del patrimonio culturale.
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Mi sono formato alla Normale di Pisa, ho insegnato a lungo alla Federico II di Napoli e ora sono professore ordinario di Storia dell’Arte Moderna all’Università per Stranieri di Siena.
Sono convinto che gli storici dell’arte servano a fare entrare le opere d’arte nella vita intellettuale ed emotiva di chi si occupa di tutt’altro.
Penso anche che l’amore per la storia dell’arte non debba essere un fatto privato (o peggio un’evasione, o un modo per non pensare), ma pubblico e ‘politico’. L’articolo 9 della Costituzione ha, infatti, mutato irreversibilmente il ruolo del patrimonio storico e artistico italiano, facendone un segno visibile -
Paola Mastrocola
Born in 1956, she works presently as high school teacher. She has won some of the most prestigious Italian literature prizes.
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Nicola Gratteri
Nicola Gratteri è un magistrato e saggista italiano, dal 21 aprile 2016 Procuratore della Repubblica di Catanzaro, capoluogo della Regione Calabria.
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Attualmente è uno dei magistrati più conosciuti della DDA (direzione distrettuale antimafia). Impegnato in prima linea contro la 'ndrangheta, vive sotto scorta dall'aprile del 1989. -
Antonio Fogazzaro
Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.
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In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin. In Milan he followed the scapigliatura movement.
In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time.
In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inne -
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti was an Italian author, poet, and journalist.
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Born in San Salvatore Monferrato, his military career was cut short by ill health, and in 1865 he settled in Milan. Here he entered literary study, becoming part of the Scapigliatura, a literary movement animated by a spirit of rebellion against traditional culture. He worked on several newspapers and published short stories, novels, and poems. He contracted tuberculosis and died in poverty at the age of 29. [wikipedia] -
Helena Janeczek
Helena Janeczek (Monaco di Baviera, 1964) è una scrittrice e giornalista tedesca naturalizzata italiana.
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Nata a Monaco nel 1964 da una famiglia di ebrei originari della Polonia e naturalizzati tedeschi attualmente vive in Italia dal 1983, dove ha pubblicato una raccolta di poesie in tedesco ed è lettrice per Mondadori della sezione Letteratura straniera.
Lezioni di tenebra - ampiamente autobiografico - è uscito in prima edizione per Mondadori nel 1997 ed è stato ripubblicato nel 2011 da Guanda. Il libro ha vinto il Premio Bagutta Opera Prima. Del 2002 è il romanzo Cibo. Segue, per il Saggiatore, Bloody Cow, storia di Clare Tomkins, la prima vittima della malattia di Creutzfeldt-Jakob, comunemente nota come "mucca pazza".
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo palatˈtseski]; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist.
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He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's direction he studied accounting but gave up that pursuit as he became enamored with the theater and acting. Respectful of his father's wishes that the family name not be associated with acting, he chose his maternal grandmother's maiden name Palazzeschi as a pseudonym.
His family's comfortable circumstances enabled him to publish his first book of poetry, I cavalli bianchi (The White Horses) in 1905 using his acting pseudonym.
After meeting Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, he became a ferve -
Emilio De Marchi
Emilio De Marchi (1851-1901) was an Italian novelist, poet and translator.
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Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli (San Mauro di Romagna, 31 dicembre 1855 – Bologna, 6 aprile 1912) è stato un poeta e accademico italiano, figura emblematica della letteratura italiana di fine Ottocento.
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Pascoli, nonostante la sua formazione eminentemente positivistica, è insieme a Gabriele D'Annunzio il maggior poeta decadente italiano.
Dal Fanciullino, articolo programmatico pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1897, emerge una concezione intima e interiore del sentimento poetico, orientato alla valorizzazione del particolare e del quotidiano, e al recupero di una dimensione infantile e quasi primitiva. D'altra parte, solo il poeta può esprimere la voce del "fanciullino" presente in ognuno: quest'idea consente a Pascoli di rivendicare per sé il ruolo, per cer -
Moses I. Finley
Sir Moses I. Finley was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.
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He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject. He was educated at Syracuse University and Columbia University. Although his M.A. was in public law, most of his published work was in the field of ancient history, especially the social and economic aspects of the classical world.
He taught at Columbia University and City College of New York, where he was influenced by members of the Frankfurt School who w -
Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.
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Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
During World War II he fought with the Italian partisans against the German occupation. After the war he also worked in the cinema, collaborating as screenwriter to films such as Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Na -
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Giuseppe Sergi
Giuseppe Sergi (March 20, 1841 – October 17, 1936) was an Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of Mediterranean peoples. He rejected existing racial typologies that identified Mediterranean peoples as "dark whites" because they implied a Nordicist conception of Mediterranean peoples descending from whites who had become racially mixed with non-whites which he claimed was false. His concept of the Mediterranean race, identified Mediterranean peoples as being an autonomous brown race and he claimed that the Nordic race was descended from the Mediterranean race whose skin had depigmented to a pale complexion after it moved north. This concept becam
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Danila Comastri Montanari
Danila Comastri Montanari was an Italian historical mystery fiction writer. She wrote the Publius Aurelius Statius series.
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Beppe Roncari
Beppe Roncari (Milano, 1978), è scrittore, traduttore, editor. Ha lavorato nella produzione di fiction e come traduttore di coproduzioni internazionali di Lux Vide; alla Digital Transformation della Scuola Holden e nella comunicazione social per l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA). È redattore di corsi di inglese per Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Esperto di Tolkien, tiene una rubrica dedicata al fantastico per la collana Urania di Mondadori, che ha pubblicato alcuni suoi racconti.
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Nel 2021, esce il romanzo storico “Numa Pompilio. Il figlio dei numi” (Mondadori), scritto a più mani, e nel 2023 la dilogia “Engaged” (Sperling & Kupfer), retelling fantasy storico de “I Promessi Sposi” di Manzoni.
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Anu Bradford
Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for the European Legal Studies Center and Chazen Senior Scholar at Columbia Business School. Her writing focuses on European Union law, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
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Bradford earned her S.J.D. degree in 2007 and LL.M. degree in 2002 from Harvard Law School, and also holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki. After completing her LL.M. studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, Bradford practiced antitrust law and EU law at Cleary Gottli