Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italian

Italy

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 novelist.

Biography

Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

 to a rich family.

In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin

Turin

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. In Milan

Milan

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 he followed the scapigliatura

Scapigliatura

Scapigliatura is the name of the artistic movement which developed in Italy after the period known as Risorgimento,...

movement.

In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time.

In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inner psychological conflicts of the characters.

Fogazzaro was a deeply religious man but supported reform in the Catholic Church and toured Italy proposing to reconcile Darwin's theory of evolution with Christianity. He found new interpretations in positivist and evolutionist theories, but because of this in 1905 the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 banned the novels Il santo and Leila. He died six years later in his birthplace, Vicenza.

Novels

• Malombra
  Malombra
  Malombra is a 1917 silent Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone. The film was shown as part of the Silent Divas of the Italian Cinema programme at the 38th New York Film Festival in 2000.-Plot:...
  
  (1881)
• Daniele Cortis
  Daniele Cortis
  Daniele Cortis is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi. The film depicts the breakdown of an unhappy marriage in Nineteenth century Italy.-Cast:...
  
  (1885)
• Il mistero del poeta (The Poet Mystery, 1888)
• Piccolo mondo antico
  Piccolo mondo antico
  Piccolo mondo antico , also known as Old-Fashioned World , is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and based on the 1895 novel by Antonio Fogazzaro...
  
  (Little Old World, 1901
  1901 in literature
  The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win...
  
  )
• Il santo (The Saint, 1905)
• Leila (1910)

Other works

• Miranda
  Miranda (novel)
  Miranda is a novel written by Antoni Lange in 1924. It was the last great work of Lange before he died , and his most famous book today. It is said that Miranda is an "occultic fiction" and a "romance ranked to a philosophical treaty". The novel is also known as "novelty writing" which conciliates...
  
  (1874, verse romance)
• Valsolda
  Valsolda
  Valsolda is a comune of c. 1,600 inhabitants in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km north of Milan and about 25 km north of Como, on the border with Switzerland....
  
  (1876, lyrics collection)
• Fedele (1887, short story collection)
• Piccolo mondo antico
  Piccolo mondo antico
  Piccolo mondo antico , also known as Old-Fashioned World , is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and based on the 1895 novel by Antonio Fogazzaro...
  
  (Little Ancient World, 1895
  1895 in literature
  The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Carlyle's House in Chelsea opens to the public.* Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White.* Ernest Thayer recites his poem, Casey at the Bat, at a Harvard class reunion....
  
  )
• Discorsi (1898, essay)
• Scienza e dolore (Science And Suffering, 1898, essay)
• Il dolore nell'arte (Suffering in Art, 1901
  1901 in literature
  The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win...
  
  , essay)

External links

• Works by Antonio Fogazzaro: text with concordances and frequency list
• Concordances and Frequency Lists of "Malombra"