Fogazzaro
(25/03/1842 Vicenza - Vicenza 03/07/1911)
(25/03/1842 Vicenza - Vicenza 03/07/1911)
was born in a wealthy family of Catholic traditions.
write of himself: "They say he knew how to read before age three, I was a Child prodigy, obnoxious kind. In fact I was very lively, very thoughtful, eager for books. My father and my mother instructed me with great love. I had a sensitive nature, but it closed. "
concluded his elementary studies in 1850: then write that they 'never studied with great zeal I had to study, but boy I read avidly by all sorts of delightful books, for the study had no real enthusiasm.
In 1856 he began attending high school, among his teachers was the poet Giacomo Zanella: "It was he who made me fall in love with Heine. I could not see, I never dreamed that most Heine. " Do not create friends among his classmates: "I passed for aristocratic reputation which I then had more or less everywhere for my cold exterior, confidential and especially for my hatred of vulgarity "and is a teenager and so romantic: 'My fantasies were always so fervent love the air: I imagined ideal of having a mistress, a superhuman being as Chateaubriand describes her Sylph. With the man was an embarrassment, of a shyness, an extraordinary clumsiness. "
finished high school in 1858, his interests would push him to study literature but is opposed by his father, who is in his literary abilities and will make a lawyer. In November 1860 the family moved to Turin and Fogazzaro Antonio joined the Faculty of Law Savoy University. He studied little and reluctantly, he attends most often coffee, playing billiards, which the university, and also lost the Catholic faith, then later wrote that he felt "a certain satisfaction as for breaking a heavy chain, but also felt a to wander away doubt. I tried it, especially the first Easter I spent without the Sacraments. I know I have spent hours of great internal agitation, walking through the garden desert of Valentino. "
continues to write poetry and publish some Universo newspaper in 1863. One year later the family moved to Milan and Anthony doing their practicum in a law firm.
Fogazzaro knew from childhood the family of Vicenza accounts Valmarana married Margaret Young in Vicenza July 31, 1866.
His work as a lazy employee of a law firm does not allow him to maintain himself and his wife without the economic rescue his family of origin. In Milan Abbondio Chialiva know, an old Carbonaro who introduces him into the bohemian literary, writers such as Emilio Praga, brothers and Arrigo Boito Camillo, Iginio Tarchetti Ugo, tried, aware of the provincialism of Italian literature, new roads in the art , referring to German and French Romantic tradition. It ties in particular with Arrigo Boito, but will never part of the current that, as confused and unrealistic, his eyes seemed too rebellious middle-class conservative and deeply conformist.
In 1868 more than the qualifying examination to the legal profession, he writes to his uncle Joseph May 21: "I am a lawyer; big deal for my future clients! Meanwhile, put the Civil Code on availability, send the license and condemn the procedure in the Criminal Code to imprisonment. " Think of it again devote himself to poetry.
In 1869 he returned to Vicenza and has dedicated himself to literature, first addressing the issues of positivist philosophy and Darwinian evolutionism, and then arrange to modernism, which shared many of the yearnings for reform Church and of Catholic culture and the need to refer to the biblical texts historical criticism (The Holy 1905).
He was appointed senator. Figure much discussed, was one of the greatest interpreters of the crisis of ethical and civil values \u200b\u200bof the Italian bourgeoisie in the post-unification. Member of the Veneto in 1889, he was vice president from 1900 to 1902 and president from 1902 to 1905
Piccolo Mondo Antico
In July 1894 he decided to terminate the relationship with Buchner ( Felicitas Buchner, Bavarian governess of the children of brother the writer) - Helen of the "Daniele Cortis.
On May 16, 1895 the son died at twenty Mariano, writes to her cousin Anna, "now he is guiding me, it is he who assists me, that I recommend, that helps me with my own tears."
The following year he published his masterpiece, Piccolo Mondo Antico, thoughtful and composed slowly since 1889. Set in the years preceding the War of Independence against the backdrop of Lake Lugano, is the story of the noble family Maironi Franco, a Catholic, liberal, and middle-class Rigey Luisa, whose marriage was opposed by the pro-Austrian Marquis Orsola , grandmother of Franco. The economic difficulties and a profound sense of honesty and justice that animates Luisa, compared to the flexible nature of Franco, make it difficult for the relationship between the couple until Ombretta them away when the little daughter drowned in the lake, but as Louise closes in on itself and is dedicated to spiritualism in the illusion of a contact re- with the child, Franco moved to Turin, where he works and acquires the consciousness of the need to participate actively in the liberation of the Italian lands from the occupation of Austria.
The novel ends with the meeting of the two spouses to Isola Bella, in 1859, where he embarks Franco to reach the shore of Lago Maggiore and the Italian troops to fight with: the announcement of the renewal risorgimantale alludes to a Next, renovated relationship between Franco and Luisa. How
Gallarati Scotti wrote in his biography, in this novel Fogazzaro "has also discovered the source of his sincerity and his inspiration. The emphasis again and he found it in the original waiver of all the feelings turbid and conventional that attract the masses and in a more intimate communion with the ideals that had been sent by their fathers with the men and the land of his childhood. He wanted to glorify the humble things and not understood by the world: a country hidden in the folds of the land last Lombard generous souls, good and painful, hidden among the folds of the great history of the Risorgimento, heroic virtues, but not apparent, the events in the flat, with healthy love in marriage, the pain in the family, the inner drama within the walls of a modest middle-class home. "
was the unanimous success of the novel to push to enact King Umberto I, 25 October 1896, the decree of appointment as a senator Fogazzaro which, however, having a wealth of less than 3,000 pounds of canonical sets, could come in the Senate June 14, 1900 only, then meet the requirements.
write of himself: "They say he knew how to read before age three, I was a Child prodigy, obnoxious kind. In fact I was very lively, very thoughtful, eager for books. My father and my mother instructed me with great love. I had a sensitive nature, but it closed. "
concluded his elementary studies in 1850: then write that they 'never studied with great zeal I had to study, but boy I read avidly by all sorts of delightful books, for the study had no real enthusiasm.
In 1856 he began attending high school, among his teachers was the poet Giacomo Zanella: "It was he who made me fall in love with Heine. I could not see, I never dreamed that most Heine. " Do not create friends among his classmates: "I passed for aristocratic reputation which I then had more or less everywhere for my cold exterior, confidential and especially for my hatred of vulgarity "and is a teenager and so romantic: 'My fantasies were always so fervent love the air: I imagined ideal of having a mistress, a superhuman being as Chateaubriand describes her Sylph. With the man was an embarrassment, of a shyness, an extraordinary clumsiness. "
finished high school in 1858, his interests would push him to study literature but is opposed by his father, who is in his literary abilities and will make a lawyer. In November 1860 the family moved to Turin and Fogazzaro Antonio joined the Faculty of Law Savoy University. He studied little and reluctantly, he attends most often coffee, playing billiards, which the university, and also lost the Catholic faith, then later wrote that he felt "a certain satisfaction as for breaking a heavy chain, but also felt a to wander away doubt. I tried it, especially the first Easter I spent without the Sacraments. I know I have spent hours of great internal agitation, walking through the garden desert of Valentino. "
continues to write poetry and publish some Universo newspaper in 1863. One year later the family moved to Milan and Anthony doing their practicum in a law firm.
Fogazzaro knew from childhood the family of Vicenza accounts Valmarana married Margaret Young in Vicenza July 31, 1866.
His work as a lazy employee of a law firm does not allow him to maintain himself and his wife without the economic rescue his family of origin. In Milan Abbondio Chialiva know, an old Carbonaro who introduces him into the bohemian literary, writers such as Emilio Praga, brothers and Arrigo Boito Camillo, Iginio Tarchetti Ugo, tried, aware of the provincialism of Italian literature, new roads in the art , referring to German and French Romantic tradition. It ties in particular with Arrigo Boito, but will never part of the current that, as confused and unrealistic, his eyes seemed too rebellious middle-class conservative and deeply conformist.
In 1868 more than the qualifying examination to the legal profession, he writes to his uncle Joseph May 21: "I am a lawyer; big deal for my future clients! Meanwhile, put the Civil Code on availability, send the license and condemn the procedure in the Criminal Code to imprisonment. " Think of it again devote himself to poetry.
In 1869 he returned to Vicenza and has dedicated himself to literature, first addressing the issues of positivist philosophy and Darwinian evolutionism, and then arrange to modernism, which shared many of the yearnings for reform Church and of Catholic culture and the need to refer to the biblical texts historical criticism (The Holy 1905).
He was appointed senator. Figure much discussed, was one of the greatest interpreters of the crisis of ethical and civil values \u200b\u200bof the Italian bourgeoisie in the post-unification. Member of the Veneto in 1889, he was vice president from 1900 to 1902 and president from 1902 to 1905
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Piccolo Mondo Antico
In July 1894 he decided to terminate the relationship with Buchner ( Felicitas Buchner, Bavarian governess of the children of brother the writer) - Helen of the "Daniele Cortis.
On May 16, 1895 the son died at twenty Mariano, writes to her cousin Anna, "now he is guiding me, it is he who assists me, that I recommend, that helps me with my own tears."
The following year he published his masterpiece, Piccolo Mondo Antico, thoughtful and composed slowly since 1889. Set in the years preceding the War of Independence against the backdrop of Lake Lugano, is the story of the noble family Maironi Franco, a Catholic, liberal, and middle-class Rigey Luisa, whose marriage was opposed by the pro-Austrian Marquis Orsola , grandmother of Franco. The economic difficulties and a profound sense of honesty and justice that animates Luisa, compared to the flexible nature of Franco, make it difficult for the relationship between the couple until Ombretta them away when the little daughter drowned in the lake, but as Louise closes in on itself and is dedicated to spiritualism in the illusion of a contact re- with the child, Franco moved to Turin, where he works and acquires the consciousness of the need to participate actively in the liberation of the Italian lands from the occupation of Austria.
The novel ends with the meeting of the two spouses to Isola Bella, in 1859, where he embarks Franco to reach the shore of Lago Maggiore and the Italian troops to fight with: the announcement of the renewal risorgimantale alludes to a Next, renovated relationship between Franco and Luisa. How
Gallarati Scotti wrote in his biography, in this novel Fogazzaro "has also discovered the source of his sincerity and his inspiration. The emphasis again and he found it in the original waiver of all the feelings turbid and conventional that attract the masses and in a more intimate communion with the ideals that had been sent by their fathers with the men and the land of his childhood. He wanted to glorify the humble things and not understood by the world: a country hidden in the folds of the land last Lombard generous souls, good and painful, hidden among the folds of the great history of the Risorgimento, heroic virtues, but not apparent, the events in the flat, with healthy love in marriage, the pain in the family, the inner drama within the walls of a modest middle-class home. "
was the unanimous success of the novel to push to enact King Umberto I, 25 October 1896, the decree of appointment as a senator Fogazzaro which, however, having a wealth of less than 3,000 pounds of canonical sets, could come in the Senate June 14, 1900 only, then meet the requirements.
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