Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic.

Biography

Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, near Palermo (Sicily). He graduated in literature at the University of Florence in 1903.

In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino.

He taught German literature and aesthetics at the universities of Turin, Rome and Milan until 1931 when, due to his opposition of the Fascist regime, he was forced to move to the United States. Here he declared himself a political exile and, when the Italian-American antifascist Mazzini Society was founded in 1939, Borgese joined it. He was the William Allan Neilson Professor at Smith College from 1932 to 1935. He was professor in the Universities of Chicago and California until the end of World War II, making friends with Thomas Mann and marrying his youngest daughter 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.[1]

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 dlle 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. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.WMWFG

Further reading
  • Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Taylor & Francis. pp. 295–298. ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3.
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