Giovanni Ruffini

Giovanni Domenico Ruffini (* 1807 in Genoa, † November 3, 1881 in Taggia on the Riviera ) was an Anglo- Italian writer.

Ruffini studied in Genoa, in 1830, lawyer, Giuseppe Mazzini in 1833 to young Italy joined (about which he reports in Ramorino et la jeune Italie, 1834), lived as a refugee in France and Switzerland, until he came to England in 1836, where he very familiarized with the language and life. But his health forced him to return to France in 1842. The Sardinian constitution in 1848 gave him a seat in Parliament; In 1849 he was appointed Sardinian Affaires in Paris, but put after the battle of Novara his place down and went back to England. Under the title of Lorenzo Benoni or Passages in the life of an Italian in 1853 he published his first English book, an autobiography, which was highly favorable reception and 1854 appeared in two volumes in German. This was followed by novels in which prevailed the patriotic sense.

  • Doctor Antonio (1855; Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1861)
  • The Para greens on a visit to Paris, in 1856; Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1869; Vienna: Rhombus Edition 1923
  • Lavinia (1860; Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1861; 1877 translated into Italian )
  • Vincenzo, or sunken rocks (Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1863), a book that helped a lot to keep alive Italy, in England favorable disposition

Don Pasquale

Under the pseudonym "MA" Ruffini 1842 was involved in the libretto of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale, which on January 3, 1843 at the " Théâtre italien de Paris " had its premiere.

Works in German translation

  • From the great period of Grenchen equipment: a translation of J. Ruffini " A little nest in the Jura ," Biel: Gaßmann 1938 ( A quiet Nooh in the Jura by John Ruffini, Leipzig 1867)
  • Carlino Transfr into German by Hans Strohmeyer, Berlin: Scherl 1914
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