biography
| name: |
Martini, Ferdinando
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)teenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1841–1928)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and writer, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. He was a deputy of the left from 1870, then minister, senator, and governor of Eritrea (1897–1900). A well-known journalist, in 1879 he founded and edited Il Fanfulla della domenica, Italy's first cultural periodical, and La Domenica letteraria in 1882. Other works include Fra un sigaro e l'altro (1876), Nell'Affrica italiana (1891), and Simpatie (1900), and the play L'uomo propone e la donna dispone (1862). |
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