Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

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Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (born November 12, 1882 in Polizzi Generosa near Palermo , † December 4, 1952 in Fiesole ) was an Italian historian , literary critic and professor, journalist, essayist and writer .

Life

In 1903 Borgese graduated from Florence with a thesis on the Storia della critica romantica in Italia ; he taught from 1910 to 1930 in Turin, Rome and Milan . As an anti-fascist , he refused to take the fascist oath at the University of Milan, which only 13 of the roughly 2,000 Italian professors dared, and in 1931 he emigrated to the USA , where he was naturalized in 1938 . In the USA Borgese was also active as a university professor, from 1936 to 1948 in the subjects of literature and political science at the University of Chicago .

Borgese was secretary of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution and was instrumental in drafting a world constitution in 1947 ( Preliminary of a World Constitution , 1948). In addition to literary reviews, Borgese also wrote essays, novels and poems . His first marriage was to the Italian writer and poet Maria Freschi , with whom he had children Leonardo and Giovanna. After his divorce, he married Elisabeth Mann , Thomas Mann's youngest daughter, on November 23, 1939 . You first lived in Chicago . The daughters Angelica (born November 30, 1940 ) and Dominica (born March 6, 1944 ) emerged from the marriage.

Borgese returned to Italy in 1949, where he resumed his previous chair in Aesthetics and the History of Criticism at the University of Milan .

Works

Novels, short stories, poems:

  • Rubé (1921)
    • Translator Curt Gutkind: Rubé . Merlin, Heidelberg 1928
  • Poetry. (1922)
  • I vivi ei morti. (1923)
  • La città sconosciuta. (1924)
  • Le belle. (1927)
  • Il sole non è tramontato. (1929)
  • Tempesta nel nulla. (1931)

Essays:

  • La Nuova Germania. 1909
  • La vita e il libro. 3 volumes, 1910–1913
  • Italia e Germania. 1915
  • Studi di letterature moderne. 1915
  • Tempo di edificare. 1923
  • La tragedia di Mayerling. 1925
    • Translator Laura Maria Kutzer: The tragedy of Mayerling . Merlin, Heidelberg 1927 (see Mary Vetsera )
  • Il senso della letteratura italiana. 1931
  • Goliath, the March of Fascism. 1937
  • The City of Man , with Thomas Mann and others, 1940
  • Common cause. 1943
  • Since Dante a Thomas Mann. 1958, posthumously

membership

In 1941, Borgese was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

swell

  • Kindlers Literatur Lexikon im dtv , Munich 1974, p. 8324: Keyword: "Rubé"
  • Leonardo Sciascia: Per un ritratto dello scrittore da giovane , Palermo 1985 (reprinted in Opere 1984-1989 , Milano 1991)

see. also web links

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Polizzi Generosa near Palermo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1952
Place of death Florence , Italy