Alberto Denti di Pirajno
Alberto Denti di Pirajno (born March 7, 1886 in La Spezia , † 1968 ) was a Sicilian writer, doctor in North Africa and restaurateur.
Denti di Pirajno belonged to the Italian aristocracy and worked for decades in the Italian colonies - first as a personal physician and later as head of the cabinet of the Duke of Aosta , the viceroy of Italian East Africa . From 1941 to 1943 he was governor of Tripoli .
His collection of stories The Girl on the Dolphin gives deep insights into the world of the Arabs, Berbers and Black Africans of the former Italian colonial and mandate areas from Tripoli to Abyssinia .
His novel Mara Lumera is set in the Sicilian mafia family.
Works
- The girl on the dolphin. Stories. [From d. Engl. Into Dt. transfer by Johannes Piron], Goldmann's yellow paperbacks, vol. 878. Munich: Goldmann, 1962
- Outwitted demons [Un medico in Africa]. My experiences as a doctor in North Africa. Translated [from Italian] by J. Piron. Düsseldorf, Diederichs, 1955
- Ippolita. Munich: Winkler Verlag, 1962
- Mara Lumera [The Love Song of Mara Lumera]. With an introduction by E. Lipper. Translated into German by Chr. Spiel. Geneva, Edito Service / Leisure Library, 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Alberto Denti di Pirajno in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denti di Pirajno, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and doctor in North Africa |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Spezia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1968 |