Arturo Graf
Arturo Graf ( born January 19, 1848 in Athens, Greece, † May 31, 1913 in Turin ) was an Italian literary critic and poet of German origin.
Graf was the son of the Nuremberg merchant Adolf and a Anconitanerin. 1851 had to move to Trieste because of the collapse of the father, the family company. 1856, a year after the death of the father, the mother Serafina Bini moved with her two sons to her brother Brăila in Romania. There, published the nearly fourteen under the pseudonym Filarete Franchi 1861 his first volume of poetry. 1863 saw the move to Naples, where he in 1867 without regular attendance as External passed his matriculation examination and then studied law at the University of Naples. After the laurea 1870 he practiced for several months in a law firm, but then gave the jurisprudence on there, worked as a writer, a friendly relationship with Antonio Labriola, and returned temporarily back to Romania to enter the family business. In 1874 he returned to Italy, this time to Rome, where in 1875 with a thesis on Giacomo Leopardi at the University La Sapienza habilitated for Italian literature and also received the qualification to teach letterature neolatine. 1876 Graf Professor of comparative literature, then also for Italian literature at the University of Turin, which he was Rector from 1892 to 1894. On Saturday afternoon he held publicly accessible seminar sessions in which the critical debut work of his students, but also their seals were presented and discussed. In his studies he devoted himself mainly to literature, because he was not a trained philologist. He followed the natural and social science approaches. Together with Francesco Novati and Rodolfo Renier Giornale storico della he gave the letteratura italiana out since 1883. The founding of the magazine was based on a request of the Turin publisher Hermann Loescher, a great-nephew of Benedict Gotthelf Teubner, acted for the Count as a literary consultant. Extinguisher widow Sofia Rauchegger 1893 Graf's wife. The circle of the Turin socialists to Edmondo De Amicis, for he translated Marxist texts regularly, Earl was close, but at a critical distance.
In 1888 he became a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, in 1906 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Publications (selection)
- Poetry, Brăila 1861
- Poetry e novella, Rome 1876
- Medusa (Turin, 1880 ), in which the poet knows how to find poignant tones for its serious, somewhat dark, so to speak, and Nordic -inspired mood.
- Dell ' epica neolatina (Rome, 1876)
- Delle origini del dramma moderno (Rome, 1876)
- Della storia letteraria e de ' suoi metodi (Turin, 1877)
- Studii drammatici (Turin, 1878)
- Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazioni del medio evo (Turin, 1882-1883, 2 vols )
- La leggenda del paradiso terrestre (Turin, 1879)
- Prometeo nella poesia (Turin, 1880)
- La leggenda dell ' aurora (Turin, 1881).
From a codex of the National Library in Turin he edited: I complementi della chanson d' Huon de Bordeaux, testi francesi Inediti; Tratti as un codice della Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino ( Halle: Niemeyer, 1878).