- Francesco Dall'Ongaro
Francesco Dall'Ongaro (
1808 -January 10 ,1873 ) was an Italian writer, poet and dramatistBiography
Born in
Friuli , Dall'Ongaro was educated for thepriesthood , but abandoned his orders, and taking topolitical journalism founded the Favilla atTrieste in the Liberal interest.In
1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome, being given by Mazzini the direction of the Monitor officiate.On the downfall of the republic he fled to
Switzerland , then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism; it was not till1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence. Subsequently he was transferred to Naples, where he died on the in 1873.His patriotic poems, "Stornelli", composed in early life, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably "Fornaretto", "Bianca Cappello", "Fasma" and "Il Tesoro". His collected "Fantasie drammatiche e liriche" were published in his lifetime.----
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