Angelo De Gubernatis

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Angelo De Gubernatis

Angelo De Gubernatis (born April 7, 1840 in Turin , † February 26, 1913 in Rome ) was an Italian orientalist , literary historian and playwright from a noble family.

life and work

Angelo De Gubernatis studied philology at the University of Turin and has been writing dramas since he was 17. The dramas Pier delle Vigne and Don Rodrigo were first performed in Turin in 1860 by the actor Girolamo Rossi .

In November 1862 he gave up his teaching post at the grammar school in Chieri and went to Berlin on a state scholarship . There he studied Sanskrit and comparative linguistics under Franz Bopp and Friedrich Weber . In 1863 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and Zendo at the Istituto degli studii superiori in Florence by the then Minister of Education, Michele Amari . Here he was drawn into the activities of the republican-socialist party through personal contact with the anarchist Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin , gave up his chair that same year in order to be completely independent and married a niece of Bakunin. After the estrangement between himself and Bakunin, he broke away from the party and was able to regain the chair, which he held until 1891. In that year he was appointed professor of Italian literature at the University of Rome , where he also taught Sanskrit until 1908. In 1886 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1903 he became a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.

His poetic and journalistic activities had not stopped in the meantime. As early as 1862 he had founded the magazine L'Italia letteraria , 1867–68 he edited the Rivista orientale, 1869 the Rivista contemporanea, 1869–76 the Rivista europea, later the Bollettino italiano degli studii orientali, 1881–82 the Cordelia .

Works

Scientific works

  • I primi venti inni del Rigveda (text and translation 1864)
  • La vita ed i miracoli del Dio Indra (1866)
  • Studii sull 'epopea indiana (1868)
  • Fonti vediche dell 'epopea (1867)
  • Piccola enciclopedia indiana (1868)
  • Storia comparata degli usi nuziali (1869)
  • Novelline di San Stefano (1869).
  • The animals in Indo-European mythology (translated from English by M. Hartmann) (Grunow, Leipzig 1874)
  • La mythologie des plantes ou les legends du règne végétal (Paris 1882).

He made his reputation as a scholar a European one with the works that continued to be published: Zoological mythology (Lond. 1872; German von Hartmann, Leipz. 1873; French. Von Regnaud, Par. 1874, 2 vol.), One of individual errors not free , but highly deserving comparative representation of the animal legend; Storia comparata degli usi natalizi (1872); Storia comparata degli usi funebri (1873); Mitologia vedica (1875); Storia dei viaggiatori italiani nelle Indie orientali (1875); Mythologie des plantes (Par. 1878, 2 vols.); Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire des langues orientales en Italie (1879); Lettere sopra l'archeologia indiana (1881) and Letture sopra la mitologia comparata (1881). In addition to this, there are extensive biographical and literary-historical works: the Ricordi biografici (1873), containing lively and thoroughly written biographies of Italian writers of his time; the great Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei (1879–80); the monographs: Giovanni Prati (1860), Dall 'Ongaro (1875), Alessandro Manzoni (1879), Manzoni e Fauriel (1880) and Eustachio Degola (1882); finally: Manuale di storia della letteratura indiana (1882) and the large-scale Storia universale della letteratura (Mail. 1882–85, 18 vols.).

Dramatic works

  • Werner (1859)
  • La morte di Catone (1863)
  • Il re Nala, trilogy about the Indian Nala material , the most famous work of the poet, performed with great success in Turin (1869; the middle piece in German by Marx, 1870)
  • Re Dasarata, performed by Rossi (1871)
  • Maya (1872)
  • Romolo (1873)
  • Romolo Augustolo, "elegia drammatica" (1876)
  • Savitri (1877)

Other

  • Gabrielle, Roman, 1866 (published in the features section of Perseveranza )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Angelo de Gubernatis. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Membership list of the Crusca
  3. ^ Classici italiani, biographical information and html version from the 1879 edition ( Memento of July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME De Gubernatis, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian orientalist, literary historian and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1913
Place of death Rome