biography
pronunciation:
[fogatsahroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1911)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Vicenza, Veneto, NE Italy. A Catholic, in his work he described the crisis of the Italian middle classes after the country's unification. He attempted, like his mentor Giacomo Zanella, to reconcile his religious faith and science. That, and his support of Modernism, in 1905 led to the banning of his book Il santo by the Catholic Church. The main theme of his books is the characters' struggle between the pull of sensuality and that of traditional religion. His work includes Malombra (1881), Daniele Cortis (1885), Piccolo mondo antico (1895), and his best known novel, Piccolo mondo moderno (1900). |
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