biography
| name: |
Dall'Ongaro, Francesco
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pronunciation:
[dalonggaroh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1808–73)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Mansuè, Veneto, NE Italy. He gave up the priesthood for journalism and politics and took part in the 1848 revolutionary rising, became a deputy in the Roman Republic's Constituent Assembly, and went into exile after its fall. He lectured in literature in Florence and Naples, and wrote collections of poems, Stornelli (1847–61) and Alghe della laguna (1866, in Venetian dialect), and the very successful play Il fornaretto di Venezia (1855). |
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