Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese ( born November 12, 1882 in Polizzi Generosa near Palermo, † December 4, 1952 in Fiesole ) was an Italian historian, literary critic and professor, journalist, essayist and writer.

1903 doctorate Borgese in Florence over Storia della critica romantica in Italia; he taught from 1910 to 1930 in Turin, Rome and Milan. As an anti-fascist, he refused at the Milan University fascist oath, which only 13 of the 2,000 Italian professors dared, and emigrated to the USA in 1931, where he was naturalized in 1938. In the U.S., Borgese also worked as a university lecturer, 1936-1948 in the fields of literature and political science at the University of Chicago.

Borgese was secretary of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution and worked mainly on the design of a World Constitution of 1947 ( Prelimary of a World Constitution, 1948). In addition to literature reviews Borgese also wrote essays, novels and poems. He was married to his first marriage with the Italian writer and poet Maria Freschi, with whom he had children and Giovanna Leonardo. After his divorce he married on November 23, 1939 in second wife Elisabeth Mann, the youngest daughter of Thomas Mann. They lived first in Chicago. From this marriage the daughters Angelica ( born November 30, 1940) and Dominica ( born March 6, 1944) emerged.

Borgese 1949 returned back to Italy, where he took over his former Chair of aesthetics and history of criticism at the University of Milan again.

Works

Novels, short stories, poems:

  • Rubé ( 1921) - dt ( Curt Gutkind ) Rubé (Heidelberg and Baden- Baden 1928)
  • Poetry (1922 )
  • I vivi e i morti (1923 )
  • La città sconosciuta (1924 )
  • Le belle (1927 )
  • Il sole non è tramontato (1929 )
  • Tempesta nel nulla (1931 )

Essays:

  • La Nuova Germania (1909 )
  • La vita e il libro (3 volumes, 1910-1913 )
  • Italia e Germania (1915 )
  • Studi di letterature modern (1915 )
  • Tempo di Edificare (1923 )
  • La tragedian di Meyerling (1925 ) - dt The tragedy of Meyerling (1927 )
  • Il senso della letteratura italiana (1931 )
  • Goliath, the March of Fascism (1937 ) (Engl. The March of Fascism, Amsterdam ( Allert de Lange ), 1938 ) (full text of the English version on the Internet Archive :)
  • The City of Man - Thomas Mann et al - (1940 )
  • Common Cause (1943 )
  • As a Dante Thomas Mann (1958 posthumously published )

Swell

  • Kindler's Literatur Lexikon in dtv, Munich 1974, p 8324: keyword: " Rubé "
  • Leonardo Sciascia: Per un ritratto dello scrittore da giovane, Palermo 1985 ( reprinted in Opere 1984-1989, Milano 1991)

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