Francesco De Sanctis

Francesco De Sanctis (* March 28, 1817 in Morra Irpinia, Avellino, † December 28, 1883 in Naples) was an Italian literary historian and critic.

Life

De Sanctis first studied law, but gave up his studies to devote himself to literature and philosophy. In addition, he studied at the prestigious private school of Marchese Basilio Puoti rhetoric. He then founded after he taught until 1838 at the Military School Military School Nunziatella in Naples, itself a higher private school for grammar, rhetoric, aesthetics and philosophy.

De Sanctis gained a reputation as a major critic of lectures on Homer, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, and Ludovico Ariosto.

In 1848 he was appointed by the Italian Government to the Secretary General at the Department of Public Instruction. At the beginning of the reaction in Italy, he fled to Cosenza, was arrested in 1850 and imprisoned for three years in the Castle of the Egg (Naples). Here he dealt with the study of the German language, translated poems by Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the history of German poetry in the Middle Ages by Karl Rosenkranz and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Science of Logic. Dismissed, with instructions to go to the U.S., he fled to Malta and went to Turin later. There he gave lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy.

In 1856 he was appointed professor of aesthetics and Italian literature at the Polytechnic in Zurich. In 1860 he was given the portfolio of public instruction in Naples and in 1861 the Ministry of the Kingdom of Italy under Camillo Benso di Cavour and his successor, Ricasoli. In the first Cabinet Rattazzi ( 3 March to 8 December 1862) took on Carlo Matteucci on April 1 this office. De Sanctis returned to Naples, took up teaching again and founded the magazine " l' Italia ". In public life, he took repeated as part of the Left Party member in Parliament. From March to December 1878 he was appointed under Benedetto Cairoli again to the post of Minister of Public Instruction and held this for a third time under Benedetto Cairoli and Agostino Depretis November 1879 to the end of 1880.

Works (selection)

  • Storia della letteratura italiana. 3rd edition. Naples 1879 ( 2 vols )
  • Saggi critici. 4 edition 1881.
  • Saggio critica sul Petrarca., 1869.
  • Nuovi saggi critici. 2nd edition, 1879.
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