Carlo Dossi

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Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi (born March 27, 1849 in Zenevredo, Province of Pavia , † 1910 in Cardina, Como ) was an Italian writer and diplomat .

Portrait of Carlo Dossi

As a writer, he admired the game with syntactic and lexical elements, he also used Latin and Lombard expressions in his prose.

Life

Carlo Dossi was born into a noble family in the province of Pavia in 1849 and enjoyed an excellent education. Even in his youth he was very interested in literature and began to write himself at an early age. At the age of 15 he wrote a comedy for children. He continues to write and is also enthusiastic about journalism. After having written several works in a relatively short period of time ( L'altrieri , Vita di Alberto Pisani and Note azzurre ), he turned to a political career.

He began to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome in 1870 and pursued a career as a diplomat under the government of Francesco Crispi . In 1892 he came to Colombia , to the Italian embassy in Bogotá , where he married Carlotta Borsani. In 1895 he was transferred to Athens , where he became enthusiastic about archeology . Eventually he becomes governor of Eritrea . During his long stays abroad he continued his literary work.

After Crispi's death, he ended his diplomatic career and in 1901 retired with his wife and three children to a country house near Como . There he mainly deals with archeology. Carlo Dossi dies in 1910.

Works

  • L'altrieri , 1868
  • Vita di Alberto Pisani , 1870
  • Ona famiglia de cialapponi , 1873, (with Gigi Pirelli)
  • La colonia felice , 1878
  • Gocce d'inchiostro , 1880
  • Ritratti umani, dal calamajo di un medico , 1874
  • Ritratti umani - Campionario , 1885
  • Desinenza in A , 1878 and 1884
  • Fricassea critica di arte, storia e letteratura , 1906
  • Ro vaniana , 1944 (posthumous, unfinished)
  • Note azzurre , 1964 (posthumously, partly published as early as 1912)

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personal data
SURNAME Dossi, Carlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dossi, Carlo Alberto Pisani (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Zenevredo, Province of Pavia
DATE OF DEATH 1910
Place of death Cardina, Como