Vittorio Imbriani

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Vittorio Imbriani (born October 27, 1840 in Naples , † January 1, 1886 in Pomigliano d'Arco ) was an Italian author, Romanist and Italianist .

life and work

Imbriani grew up in Nice from the age of nine . He studied in Turin and Zurich with Francesco De Sanctis , also in Berlin (with Karl Ludwig Michelet and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg ). In 1866 he fought alongside Garibaldi . From 1863 he taught sporadically at the University of Naples , but was defeated by his rival Bonaventura Zumbini in 1878 to succeed Luigi Settembrini . In 1884 he was appointed to the chair of aesthetics as the successor to Antonio Tari , but could no longer give lectures due to illness. Only Benedetto Croce and Gianfranco Contini recognized his scientific achievement . Since around 1960, his narrative work has also been re-evaluated, which continues to this day.

The town of Pomigliano d'Arco, where Imbriani lived from 1872 and where he is buried, gave his name to a cultural foundation ( Fondazione Vittorio Imbriani ).

Works (selection)

  • Sul Fausto di Goethe , Naples 1865
  • Le leggi dell'organismo poetico e della poesia popolare italiana , Naples 1866
  • (Ed. With Antonio Casetti) Canti popolari delle provincie meridionali , 3 vol., Turin 1871–1872
  • (Ed.) XII conti pomiglianesi , Naples 1876
  • (Ed.) La novellaja fiorentina. Fiabe e novelline shorthand in Firenze dal dettato popolare , Livorno 1877
  • Fame usurpate. Quattro studii , Naples 1877, 1987
  • Appunti critici , Naples 1878, Rome 2009
  • Sulle canzoni pietrose di Dante , Bologna 1882

Posthumously

  • Studi danteschi , Florence 1891
  • Studi letterari e bizzarrie satiriche , ed. by Benedetto Croce , Bari 1907
  • Critica d'arte e prose narrative , ed. by G. Doria, Bari 1937 (with list of publications)
  • Romanzi , ed. by Fabio Pusterla, Parma 1992
  • Racconti e prose (1863-1876) , ed. by Fabio Pusterla, Parma 1992
  • Racconti e prose (1877-1886) , Parma 1994 (with bio-bibliographic note by Fabio Pusterla)
  • Poetry , ed. by Gabriella Riso Alimena, Milan 2010
  • L'altro Dante. Scritti inediti e rari , ed. by Noemi Corcione, Naples 2014

literature

  • Giuseppe Izzi:  IMBRIANI, Vittorio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 62:  Iacobiti-Labriola. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2004.
  • Gabriella Alfieri, La lingua "sconciata". Espressionismo ed espressivismo in Vittorio Imbriani , Naples 1990
  • Studi su Vittorio Imbriani , ed. by Rosa Franzese and Emma Giammattei, Naples 1990 (files from a 1986 colloquium)
  • Vittorio Imbriani , ed. by Gabriella Riso Alimena, Bologna 2008
  • Carteggi di Vittorio Imbriani , ed. by N. Coppola, 3 vol., Rome 1963–1965 (correspondence)
  • Carteggi inediti , ed. by Monica Mola, Venice 2007 (correspondence)

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personal data
SURNAME Imbriani, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1886
Place of death Pomigliano d'Arco