Angelo De Gubernatis

Angelo De Gubernatis ( born April 7, 1840 in Turin, † February 26, 1913 in Rome ) was an Italian Orientalist, poet and literary historian of aristocratic family.

Life and work

Angelo De Gubernatis operation philological studies at the University of Turin and wrote since he was 17 dramas. The dramas Pier delle Vigne and Don Rodrigo were performed in 1860 in Turin by the actor Girolamo Rossi for the first time.

In November 1862 he gave up his teaching at the high school back in Chieri and went with a state scholarship to Berlin. There he studied under Franz Bopp and Friedrich Weber Sanskrit and comparative linguistics. In 1863 he was appointed by the then Minister of Education Michele Amari as a professor of Sanskrit and Zendo at the Istituto degli studii superiori in Florence. Here he was dragged through personal intercourse with the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in the machinations of the Republican-Socialist Party, decided not to be completely independent, yet in the same year to his chair and married a niece of Bakunin. After estrangement between him and Bakunin, he broke away from the party and was able to get back the chair, which he held until 1891. In that year he was appointed professor of Italian literature at the University of Rome, where he also taught Sanskrit in addition to 1908. In 1903 he became a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.

His poetic and journalistic activities had not rested now. In 1862 he founded the journal L' Italia letteraria, 1867-68, he edited the Rivista orientale, 1869, the Rivista contemporanea, 1869-76, the Rivista europea, later the Bollettino italiano degli studii orientali, 1881-82 Cordelia.

Works

Scientific works

• I primi venti inni del Rigveda (text and translation 1864)
• La vita ed i miracoli del Dio Indra (1866 )
• Studii sull ' epopea indiana (1868 )
• Fonti vediche dell ' epopea (1867 )
• Piccola enciclopedia indiana (1868 )
• Storia degli usi Comparata nuziali (1869 )
• Novel Line of San Stefano (1869).

His reputation as a scholar, he made a European with further published works: " Zoological mythology" ( Lond. 1872; German by Hartmann, Leipz 1873; double of Regnaud, Par 1874, 2 vols. ), One of the individual errors not free, but highly meritorious comparative representation of the animal Sage; " Storia degli usi Comparata natalizi " (1872 ); " Storia degli usi Comparata funebri " (1873 ); " Mitologia vedica " (1875 ); " Storia dei Travellers italiani nelle Indie oriental " (1875 ); " Mythology des plantes " (par. 1878, 2 vols ); " Matériaux pour servir à l' histoire des langues orientales en Italie" (1879 ); " Lettere sopra l' archeologia indiana" (1881 ) and " Letture sopra la mitologia Comparata " (1881 ). On top of this extensive biographical and litterarhistorische work come: the " Ricordi biografici " (1873 ), written vivid and detailed biographies of Italian writers of modern times including; the big " Dizionario degli biografico scrittori contemporanei " ( 1879-80 ); the monographs: " Giovanni Prati " (1860 ), " Dall ' Ongaro " (1875 ), " Alessandro Manzoni " (1879 ), " Manzoni e Fauriel " (1880 ) and " Eustachio degola " (1882 ); finally: " Manuale di storia della letteratura indiana" (1882 ) and the large-scale " Storia universale della letteratura " ( Mail. 1882-85, 18 vols ). In the restlessness and versatility of his literary activity Angelo de Gubernatis is an almost unexampled unique appearance.

Dramatic works

• Werner ( 1859)
• La morte di Catone (1863 )
• Il re Nala Nala trilogy on the Indian fabric, the most famous work of the poet, performed with great success in Turin (1869, the average piece of German Marx, 1870)
• Re Dasarata listed by Rossi (1871 )
• Maya ( 1872)
• Romolo (1873 )
• Romolo Augustolo, " elegia drammatica " (1876 )
• Savitri (1877 )

Other

• Gabrielle, novel, 1866 ( published in the arts section of the Perseveranza )