Giovanni Domenico Ruffini

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Giovanni Domenico Ruffini

Giovanni Domenico Ruffini (* 1807 in Genoa ; † November 3, 1881 in Taggia on the Riviera ) was an Italian writer .

Ruffini attended the Lyceum in Genoa, studied in Genoa, became a lawyer in 1830, joined Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy in 1833 (he reports on it in Ramorino et la jeune Italie , 1834), lived as a refugee in France and Switzerland until he went to England in 1836 came where he got very familiar with language and life. However, his health forced him to return to France in 1842. The Sardinian constitution gave him a seat in parliament in 1848; In 1849 he became the Sardinian Chargé appointed in Paris but placed after the Battle of Novara his place down and went back to England. Under the title Lorenzo Benoni or Passages in the life of an Italian , he published his first English book in 1853, an autobiography that was very well received and appeared in German in two volumes in 1854. It was followed by novels in which the patriotic tendency predominated.

  • Doctor Antonio (1855; Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1861)
  • The Paragreens on a visit to Paris , 1856; Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1869; Vienna: Rhombus Edition 1923
  • Lavinia (1860; Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1861; translated into Italian in 1877)
  • Vincenzo, or sunken rocks (Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1863), a book that did a lot to keep a mood favorable to Italy alive in England

Don Pasquale

Under the pseudonym "MA", Ruffini was involved in the libretto of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale in 1842 , which premiered on January 3, 1843 at the "Théâtre italien de Paris".

Works in German translation

  • Lorenzo Benoni. Scenes from the life of an Italian . Published by a friend, Wurzen 1854
  • From the great time of the Grenchenbad  : a translation of J. Ruffini's "A little nest in the Jura", Biel: Gaßmann 1938 ( A quiet nooh in the Jura by John Ruffini, Leipzig 1867)
  • Carlino translated into German by Hans Strohmeyer, Berlin: Scherl 1914

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SURNAME Ruffini, Giovanni Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1881
Place of death Taggia