Vitaliano Brancati

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Vitaliano Brancati
Born	(1907-07-24)24 July 1907 Pachino, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Died	25 September 1954(1954-09-25) (aged 47) Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Occupation	author
Spouse	Anna Proclemer ​ (m. 1946)​
Children	1

Vitaliano Brancati (Italian pronunciation: [vitaˈljaːno braŋˈkaːti]; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in

In 1944 he wrote the novel Gli anni perduti ("The Lost Years"), a bold satire of Benito Mussolini's megalomania, and in 1946 Vecchio con gli stivali ("Old Man in Boots"), a satirical short story inspired by the vicissitudes of the Italian fascism which won the Vendemmia Award and which was adapted into a successful film, Difficult Years by Luigi Zampa.^[1] In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize with one another well-known novel, Il bell'Antonio ("The Handsome Antonio").^[1] He was one of the contributors of a cultural magazine, Omnibus.^[2]

He died in a clinic in Turin after a major surgery.^[1] He was married to actress Anna Proclemer and the couple had a daughter together.^[1]

Selected works

Novels and short stories

• Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1941), adapted into the film internationally released as Don Juan in Sicily (1967)
• Gli anni perduti (1944) (The Lost Years (1992), trans. Patrick Creagh)
• Il bell'Antonio (1949) (Antonio: The Great Lover (1952), Beautiful Antonio (1993), trans. Patrick Creagh); adapted into the film Il bell'Antonio (1960)
• Vecchio con gli stivali (1946), a short story, adapted into the film Anni difficili (Difficult Years) (1948)

Screenplays

• La bella addormentata (Sleeping Beauty) (1942)
• Don Cesare di Bazan (1942)
• Gelosia (Jealousy) (1942)
• Signori, in carrozza! (Rome-Paris-Rome) (1951)
• È più facile che un cammello... (His Last Twelve Hours) (1951)
• Anni facili (Easy Years) (1953)
• L'arte di arrangiarsi (The Art of Getting Along) (1954)
• Paolo il caldo (Hot Paolo) (1955)

References

Further reading

• Nino Borsellino (1971). "BRANCATI, Vitaliano".
  ISBN 978-8-81200032-6
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• (in Italian) Sarah Zappulla Muscarà (edited by), Vitaliano Brancati, Catania, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, 1986.
  ISBN 978-88-7751-003-7
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• (in Italian) Sarah Zappulla Muscarà (edited by), Narratori siciliani del secondo dopoguerra, Catania, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, 1990.
  ISBN 978-88-7751-031-0
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