Italo Alighiero Chiusano

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Italo Alighiero Chiusano
Germanist
NationalityItalian

Italo Alighiero Chiusano (10 June 1926 – 15 February 1995)[1] was an Italian independent writer, literary critic, Germanist, literary historian, essayist, author of dramas, and journalist.

Chiusano authored several television

screenplays
.

Biography and works

Chiusano was born at

Second World War. However, his origin was Italian: Chiusano's father was a diplomat from Pinerolo and his mother was from Turin
.

Chiusano's intellectual formation was heavily influenced by the German language; he studied and wrote literary criticism of German literature.

He wrote articles for the Italian newspapers

, and many others.

Chiusano had a

Catholic education (he was defined by Vittorio Messori "open minded Christian"), and was fluent in German, French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. He spent his childhood and youth traveling throughout Europe and Brazil (Ajaccio, Stuttgart, Rotterdam
, São Paulo were some of the cities where he lived).

He attended high school in Brazil and in 1948 he graduated in law in Rome. In the early 1950s he worked as a journalist, translator, and author of dramas for radio.

In 1964 he married Leyla Givonetti, with whom he had a son, Mattia, and a daughter, Agata.

As a writer he possessed a dry and incisive style. His historical novel

Arduin and Otto III, La derrota (1982), Il vizio del gambero (1986), Konradin (1990, a portrait of Conradin
) and Eroi di vetro (1989).

As essayist and literary critic he was the author in 1976 of a history of modern German theater and, in 1981, a Life of

Goethe
. For the theater he wrote Le notti di Verna (1981) and Il Sacrilegio (1982).

Furthermore, he was the author of Literatur, published in 1984 and containing almost two hundred articles devoted to his beloved

.

In the 1970s and 1980s he was co-writer of some

fictions broadcast by RAI
(Italian state television), inspired from famous authors and dedicated to great literary characters or themes:

Chiusano died at Frascati in 1995.

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