Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

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Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian

Germanist, poet, playwright
and academic naturalized American.

Biography

Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, near Palermo (Sicily). During the academic year 1899-1900, under pressure from his father who wanted him a lawyer, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Palermo. In 1900 he moved to Florence where, at the Institute of Higher Studies, he follows the courses of Girolamo Vitelli, Pio Rajna, Pasquale Villari, Achille Coen and Guido Mazzoni. He graduated in literature at the University of Florence in 1903. From his marriage with the writer Maria Freschi two children were born Leonardo (1904) and Giovanna (1911).

In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the

Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino. He also contributed to the Leonardo magazine.[1]

He taught German literature and

Elisabeth
with whom he had two daughters, Angelica and Dominica.

He returned to Milan in 1945.

After the war, Giuseppe and his wife were involved with the writing of a draft constitution for a federal world government.[3]

Borgese died in Fiesole in 1952.

Works

Poetry

  • La canzone paziente (1910)
  • Le Poesie (1922)
  • Poesie 1922-1952 (1952)

Novels

  • Rubè (1921)
  • I vivi e i morti (1923)

Short stories

  • La città sconosciuta (1925)
  • La tragedia di Mayerling (1925)
  • Le belle (1927)
  • Il sole non è tramontato (1929)
  • Tempesta nel nulla (1931)
  • Il pellegrino appassionato (1933)
  • La Siracusana (1950)
  • Le novelle (2 volumes, 1950)

Theatre

  • L'Arciduca (1924)
  • Lazzaro (1925)

Literature and aesthetics

  • Gabriele D'Annunzio (1909)
  • Mefistofele. Con un discorso sulla personalità di Goethe (1911)
  • La vita e il libro (3 volumes, 1910-1913)
  • Studi di letterature moderne (1915)
  • Resurrezione (1922)
  • Tempo di edificare (1923)
  • Ottocento europeo (1927)
  • Il senso della letteratura italiana (1931)
  • Poetica dell'unità. Cinque saggi (1934)
  • Problemi di estetica e storia della critica (1952)

Journalism and essays

  • La nuova Germania (1909)
  • Italia e Germania (1915)
  • Guerra di redenzione (1915)
  • La guerra delle idee (1916)
  • L'Italia e la nuova alleanza (1937)
  • L'Alto Adige contro l'Italia (1921)
  • Goliath, the March of Fascism (1937)
  • Disegno preliminare di costituzione mondiale (1949)

Voyages

  • Autunno a Costantinopoli (1929)
  • Giro lungo per la primavera (1930)
  • Escursioni in terre nuove (1931)
  • Atlante americano (1936)

References

  1. doi:10.1086/ahr/95.2.359
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  2. ^ "Exile Becoming A Citizen; Prof. Borgese at Chicago Says Italy 'Has Given Me Up'". The New York Times. 1938-04-12. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  3. ^ "Guide to the World Movement for World Federal Government Records 1947-1951". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved Sep 3, 2020.

Further reading

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