Luigi Meneghello

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Luigi Meneghello
Malo, Italy
Died26 June 2007(2007-06-26) (aged 85)
Thiene, Italy
Occupationnovelist, essayist, academic
NationalityItalian
Period1963–2004
Subjectrecent Italian history, the Italian Resistance, teaching

Luigi Meneghello (16 February 1922 – 26 June 2007) was an Italian contemporary writer and scholar.

Biography

Luigi Meneghello was born in

Malo, a small town in the countryside near Vicenza, on 16 February 1922.[1] His father was a craftsman and his mother was a teacher.[2] Meneghello entered in 1939 the University of Padua to study philosophy.[2] From 1940 to 1942 worked for Paduan newspaper Il Veneto.[2] In the early Forties, he had his first contacts with anti-fascism and, after a short time in the Army, entered the Partito d'azione and became active in the resistance movement in 1943.[1]
Of his early life, he said:

My studies, at Vicenza and Padua, were absurdly 'brilliant', but useless and partly damaging. I was exposed, as a youth, to the effects of a fascist education, and then somehow was re-educated during the war and the civil war, under the protective wings of the Partito d'Azione (Party of Action). I expatriated in 1947-48 and settled in England with my wife Katia. We have no children. My encounter with the culture of the English, and the shock of their language, were for me a determining factor.

— Luigi Meneghello, The Guardian, 17/08/07

In 1945 Meneghello graduated cum laude with a thesis on the philosophy of

I piccoli maestri (literally, "The Little Teachers"). This book was translated into English in 1967, and published as The Outlaws. This book was considered "one of the few non-rhetorical, and therefore all the more effective, memoirs of the Italian resistance, which is true in every detail" (L. and G. Lepschy, in the "Guardian obituary"). A film version with the same title was directed in 1998 by Daniele Luchetti.[3]

In 1980 Meneghello retired from the University of Reading, to devote his time to writing. He lived in London and later in Thiene (near Vicenza), where he moved permanently after his wife's death in 2004. He died there in June 2007.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b c d Giulio and Laura Lepschy, ‘Luigi Meneghello’ (obituary), The Guardian, 17 August 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d cronologia Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Comune di Malo.
  3. ^ a b ‘Professor Luigi Meneghello’ (obituary), The Times, 1 August 2007
  4. ^ Past winners of the John Florio Prize at the Society of Authors website
  • it:Luigi Meneghello
  • Foreword from Meneghello, Luigi (2006).
    ISBN 88-17-01252-1
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  • Obituary, The Guardian, 17 August 2007 (see External links)

External links
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