biography
pronunciation:
[setembreenee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1813–76)
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| biography:
| Italian patriot and writer, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. A member of Mazzini's Young Italy, he was forced to leave the country after publishing Protesta del popolo delle Due Sicilie in 1847. Back in Italy, he took part in the 1848 risings, and was sentenced to the death penalty, which was commuted to life imprisonment. After 1860 he held the Italian literature chair at Bologna and then Naples University, and became a senator in 1872. His Lezioni di letteratura italiana (1866–72) shows his deep civil commitment, and his Ricordanze della mia vita (1875) is considered one of the finest memoirs of the century. The novel I neoplatonici (1851–59) was published posthumously in 1977. |
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