Vittorio Bersezio

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Vittorio Bersezio

Vittorio Bersezio (born March 1, 1828 in Peveragno , Piedmont , † January 30, 1900 in Turin ) was an Italian poet and journalist .

Life

Vittorio Bersezio wrote librettos for small stages at the age of twelve. From 1845 he studied law in Turin, where he fully joined the liberal movement that marked the last years of Karl Albert's reign , and received his doctorate in law in 1848. He took part in the battles against Austria in 1848/49 and afterwards, at the request of his father, started a career as a lawyer, but soon turned exclusively to writing. At first he tried his hand at being a dramatic poet with little success, then helped found the journal L'Espero and edited the Fischietto for a year . After retiring to the solitude of his rural homeland for a few years and writing his first important work, Il novelliere contemporaneo , here in 1855 , which was followed by other stories, he stayed repeatedly in Paris in 1857 and 1858 . Then he lived again in Turin. In 1865 he founded the Gazzetta piemontese . He later added a literary section to this, the weekly Gazzetta letteraria , and directed it until 1880.

Bersezio published a number of novels and short stories with which he, as a propagandist of the Risorgimento , sought to educate his people and thereby strive to promote the unity of Italy. At the same time he tried his hand at comedy with more luck than before in serious drama. Una bolla di sapone (1870), for example, had great success ; But he earned his best laurels with around 20 comedies written in the Piedmontese dialect, among which Le miserie d'Monssù Travet (premiered in 1863; also performed in German theaters under the title Bartholomäus' Leiden ) can be described as his masterpiece. As a narrator as well as a comedy poet, Bersezio shone primarily through the liveliness and faithfulness of his portrayal of Piedmontese life. As a historian he emerged with his detailed account of the reign of Victor Emanuel II ( Il regno di Vittorio Emanuele II. Trentanni di vita italiana , 8 vols., Turin 1878-95). He reported on his life under the title Note autobiografiche in Il primo passo (Florence 1882).

Works

  • Pietro Micca , drama, 1852
  • Romolo , drama, 1853
  • Il novelliere contemporaneo , Roman, Turin 1855
  • La famiglia , Roman, Turin 1856
  • L'amor di patria , Roman, Turin 1856
  • Mina, o virtù ed amore , Roman, Turin 1858
  • La mano di neve , Roman, Turin 1860
  • L'odio , Roman, Turin 1860
  • Il segreto d'Adolfo , Roman, Turin 1861
  • Le miserie d'Monssù Travet , Comedy, Turin 1863
  • Gli angeli della terra , Roman, Milan 1864; German, Leipzig 1884
  • La carità del prossimo , Roman, Milan 1868
  • Povera Giovanna , Roman, Milan 1869, German Leipzig 1883
  • Una bolla di sapone , comedy , Milan 1870; German, Leipzig 1889
  • La prosperità del signor Travetti , Milan 1871
  • Le miserie del signor Travetti: commedia in cinque atti , Milan 1871
  • Un pugno incognito , drama, Milan 1872
  • Roma la capitale d'Italia , historical work, Milan 1872; Magnificent edition 1886-88
  • Cavalieri armi ed amori , Roman, Milan 1874
  • La corruttela , Roman, Milan 1877; German corruption , 2 vol., Vienna 1877
  • Il regno di Vittorio Emanuele II. Trentanni di vita italiana , history, 8 vols., Turin 1878–95
  • Aristocrazia. La vendetta di Zoe , Roman, Milan 1881
  • Domenico Santorno , Roman, Milan 1884
  • L'ultimo dei Caldiero , Roman, Rome 1887
  • Viperina , Roman, Verona 1889
  • L'onore paterno , Roman, Verona 1890

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SURNAME Bersezio, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Peveragno , Piedmont
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1900
Place of death Turin