Giovanni Andrea Maurizio

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Giovanni Andrea Maurizio (born July 4, 1815 in Vicosoprano ; † April 17, 1885 ibid) was a Swiss theologian , teacher , lay philologist and writer .

Giovanni Andrea Maurizio

Life

Maurizio came from a Bergell family. After attending grammar school in Ftan and Chur , he studied theology at the University of Zurich , but dropped out. Subsequently, he worked as a teacher at the Cantonal School in Chur and at the Evangelical Institute in Schiers as well as a primary and secondary teacher in various communities in Graubünden. Later, he was a school inspector and Landammann in his home valley, the Bergell, where he died 1885th

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Maurizio dealt in detail with the Bergell idiom , which forms a historically unique mixture of Lombard and Ladin . Among other things, he provided the Italian philologist Graziadio Ascoli with research material on the Bergell idiom.

Much of his dramas and poems were destroyed in a fire in his house in Vicosoprano in 1865. His main literary work is the drama La Stria , ossia i stingual da l'amur ( Eng . The witch or the whims of love ) , written in 1875 . The plot of the historical piece is set in the Reformation period . The Reformation was a formative historical process for the Bergell, and thus also superficial in the culture of remembrance , especially since the valley is still the only Italian-speaking region with a Protestant majority. La Stria is a multi-layered drama that, in addition to the historical component, also has aspects of a tragedy, but also a comedy in a relationship. The central characters are the returnees Tumpee Stampa and his childhood sweetheart Anin, who is accused and condemned of witchcraft by Old Believers in the course of the plot , but is finally rehabilitated. The drama consists of five acts and is one of the few great literary testimonies in the Bergell idiom before 1900.

The La Stria 2015 project was launched in 2013, with the aim of staging the drama again under the patronage of the Società culturale di Bregaglia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Silvio Maurizio: Giovanni Andrea Maurizio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 24, 2006 , accessed June 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ La Stria 2015
  3. ↑ La Stria 2015
personal data
SURNAME Maurizio, Giovanni Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurizius, Giovanni Andrea; Maurizio, Johann; Maurizio, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, lay philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicosoprano
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1885
Place of death Vicosoprano