Giovanni Anastasi (Author)

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Giovanni Anastasi (born November 10, 1861 in Lugano ; † June 5, 1926 there ) was an Italian-Swiss teacher, journalist and writer.

Life

Giovanni Anastasi was an architect by profession, but worked as a teacher and journalist. He worked as a mathematics teacher at the grammar school in Lugano, in 1891/92 as a teacher and deputy director at the teachers' college in Locarno , then again for a year at the grammar school in Lugano. From 1892 to 1907 he headed the Corriere del Ticino newspaper , and from 1918 the Messaggero ticinese . He also taught at the Collegio Landriani, of which he was director from 1905 to 1917. He wrote school books as well as various literary works.

Publications (selection)

  • Novella. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1886.
  • Racconti. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1893.
  • Cognomi ticinesi nel secolo XIX. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1910.
  • Vita ticinese: storia-caratteristiche-aneddoti; The pianeta delle sorte-Le chiacchiere del villaggio. Tipografia A. Arnold, Lugano 1911.
  • with Carlo Augusto Béha and Guido Baldassarre: Il Mangiacomune: scene elettorali ticinesi. Tipografia A. Arnold, Lugano 1911;
  • with Werner Johannes Guggenheim: Election campaign in Castellazzo Ticino novella. Bern [Basel] [Association] Good Writings No. 196, Bern 1940.
  • with Eugène Monod: Le rouge et le bleu: nouvelles tessinoises. Spes, Lausanne 1918.
  • Al bravo Presidente. Scene di vita luganese. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1917.
  • Nostranelle. Letture ticinesi. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1923.
  • La seconda giovinezza: romanzo della campagna luganese. Tipopgrafia A. Arnold, Lugano 1924.
  • Strada di Gandria e Parco Nazionale prealpino. Tipografia Luganese Sanvito, Lugano 1925.

literature

  • Jakob Keller: prose poetry by three Ticino contemporaries . Frauenfeld 1932 ( excerpt ).
  • Verio Pini: Giovanni Anastasi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2001 , accessed March 15, 2020 .
  • Eligio Pometta : Note sulla letteratura ticinese moderna . In: Schweizerische Rundschau 1892, pp. 475–480.
  • Various authors: Scrittori della Svizzera italiana. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1936, pp. 88-92.

Web links

  • Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Anastasi, In Historisches-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , p. 359 (PDF digitized , accessed on May 4, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Anastasi, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss teacher, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1926
Place of death Lugano