- Alessandro d'Ancona
Alessandro D'Ancona (
20 February 1835 -9 November 1914 ) was an Italiancritic andwriter .He was born at
Pisa , of a wealthyJewish family, and educated inFlorence ; at the age of eighteen he published his essay on the life and work of the philosopherTommaso Campanella .In 1855 Ancona went to
Turin , nominally to studylaw , but in reality to act as intermediary between the Tuscan Liberals andCavour ; he was an intimate friend ofLuigi Carlo Farini and representedTuscany in theSocieta Nazionale . On the fall of theAustria n dynasty in Tuscany (April 27 ,1859 ) he returned to Florence, where he edited the newly founded newspaper "La Nazione ". In 1861 he was appointed professor ofItalian literature at theUniversity of Pisa .Among his works the following may be mentioned: "Opera di Tommaso Campanella", 2 vols. (Turin, 1854); "Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV., XV., e XVI." (3 vols., Florence, 1872); "Origini del Teatro in Italia" (2 vols., Florence, 1877); "La Poesia popolare italiana" (Livorno, 1878), besides several volumes of literary essays, editions of the works of
Dante and other early Italian writers, etc.References
*1911
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NAME=D'Ancona, Alessandro
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH=20 February 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH=Pisa
DATE OF DEATH=9 November 1914
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