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Guido Gozzano
101 books17 followersGuido Gustavo Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer.
He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Massimo D'Azeglio. He spent his life in Turin and in Agliè (in the Canavese area), where his family owned several buildings and a large estate: Villa Il Meleto.
Of delicate health (but nevertheless practicing sports such as ice-skating, cycling, and swimming), he completed primary school with mediocre results, and attended Liceo classico Cavour; in 1903, after secondary school, he studied law at the University of Turin but never graduated, preferring to attend the crepuscolari torinesi, i.e. literature lessons by poet Arturo Graf, who was well liked by the young men of letters.
Graf exercised great influence over Gozzano. His Leopardi-inspired pessimism was mitigated by a spiritualistic form of socialism, a combination which young Turinese intellectuals (who saw in his thought an "antidote" to the style of Gabriele D'Annunzio) particularly favoured. Graf helped Gozzano depart from D'Annunzio's canon, which imbued his early work, by "going back to the sources" and devoting himself to a thorough study of the poetry of Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, which helped refine his poetic sensibility.
He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Massimo D'Azeglio. He spent his life in Turin and in Agliè (in the Canavese area), where his family owned several buildings and a large estate: Villa Il Meleto.
Of delicate health (but nevertheless practicing sports such as ice-skating, cycling, and swimming), he completed primary school with mediocre results, and attended Liceo classico Cavour; in 1903, after secondary school, he studied law at the University of Turin but never graduated, preferring to attend the crepuscolari torinesi, i.e. literature lessons by poet Arturo Graf, who was well liked by the young men of letters.
Graf exercised great influence over Gozzano. His Leopardi-inspired pessimism was mitigated by a spiritualistic form of socialism, a combination which young Turinese intellectuals (who saw in his thought an "antidote" to the style of Gabriele D'Annunzio) particularly favoured. Graf helped Gozzano depart from D'Annunzio's canon, which imbued his early work, by "going back to the sources" and devoting himself to a thorough study of the poetry of Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, which helped refine his poetic sensibility.
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July 18, 2021
Non avevo mai letto nulla di Gozzano e dovevo recuperare! Grazie a Caravaggio Editore e a Enrico De Luca sto avendo l’occasione di iniziare a colmare le mie lacune di letteratura italiana. In questo caso si tratta di una novellina molto potente che potrebbe richiamare La casa delle bambole di Katherine Mansfield per la trattazione dell’argomento della differenza tra classi, ma soprattutto della poca attenzione che, giustamente, i bambini riservano alle regole sociali non scritte. L'amicizia pura tra Luca e Mario si trasformerà inspiegabilmente in un legame più saldo che mi ha commossa non poco! Mi dispiace ma non posso svelarvi altro.
Il presente volume si basa sul testo della prima edizione, arricchito da note che svelano il significato di alcuni termini ormai desueti.
Il presente volume si basa sul testo della prima edizione, arricchito da note che svelano il significato di alcuni termini ormai desueti.
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