Carlo Dossi

Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi ( born March 27, 1849 in Zenevredo, Pavia, † 1910 in Cardina, Como ) was an Italian writer and diplomat.

As a writer he admired the game with syntactic and lexical elements, also he used Latin and Lombard expressions in his prose.

Life

Carlo Dossi is born into a noble family in 1849 in the province of Pavia and enjoys an excellent education. He is interested in his youth very much for literature and early starts to write itself. At 15, he wrote a comedy for kids. He continues to write and a passion for journalism. After he has written several works in a relatively short time (L' altrieri, Vita di Alberto Pisani and central azzurre ) he turns to a political career.

It begins in 1870 to work at the Foreign Ministry in Rome and under the government of Francesco Crispi, he pursued a career as a diplomat. In 1892, he thus arrives to Colombia, at the Italian Embassy in Bogotá, where he married Carlotta Borsani. 1895 he was transferred to Athens, where he began to get excited for archeology. Eventually he becomes governor of Eritrea. During his long stays abroad, he continues his work as an author.

After death Crispis he ended his diplomatic career and contracts in 1901 with his wife and three children to a country house near Como back. He mainly deals with archeology. Carlo Dossi dies in 1910.

Works

• L' altrieri, 1868
• Vita di Alberto Pisani, 1870
• Ona famiglia de cialapponi, 1873, ( with Gigi Pirelli )
• La colonia felice, 1878
• Gocce d' inchiostro, 1880
• Ritratti umani, dal calamajo di un medico, 1874
• Ritratti umani - Campionario, 1885
• Desinenza in A, 1878 and 1884
• Fricassea critica di arte, storia e letteratura, 1906
• Ro vaniana, 1944 ( posthumous, unfinished)
• Note azzurre, 1964 ( posthumously, in part published in 1912 )