Giuseppe Giusti

Giuseppe Giusti, spr. dschústi, ( born May 13, 1809 in Monsummano Terme, Province of Pistoia, † March 31, 1850 in Florence ) was an Italian poet, satirist and politician.

Life

Giusti completed his schooling at the high school of Lucca and Pistoia. At the request of his family, he began then law at the University of Pisa to study. Upon successful completion, he began his clerkship in Florence, to prepare for a career as a lawyer.

From home of sickly nature, Giusti was during this time to realize that he was completely out of place as a lawyer. When he also fell in love unhappy, he retired into private life and devoted himself almost exclusively to the literature.

When the Austrian Emperor Francis II on 2 March 1835, but died the poem Il was anonymous dies irae (Eng. "The Day of Wrath" ) published, which aroused by the unprecedented frankness of the language quite a stir; until years later, Giusti known as an author to this and other anonymous works, in which, in bold as well as sharp, the prevailing political and social abuses were denounced.

Politically interested, Giusti was an ardent supporter of a united independent of Italy, and dealt with it again and again in his political pamphlets and poems. It indiscriminately attacked the secular and ecclesiastical aristocracy, as well as the " Italianissimi " and the " utopians " as the traitor of the Italian thing.

On the occasion of the coronation of Ferdinand I, King of Lombardy on September 6, 1838 Giusti published his poem " L' incoronazione ". With this and in his play " La vestizione d'un cavaliere " (1839 ) he attacked Ferdinand and his politics and mocked also upstarts and war; this play Giusti dedicated to the manes of Talleyrand.

For political reasons, circulated Giusti poems until 1844 only in manuscript form. As this year appeared an unauthorized expenditure which he, he himself began to revise his works and was already in the following year published a collection.

As at 21 June 1846 of Pius IX. was elected Pope, Giusti cheered this among others because saw with his writing " Il congresso de Birri " with this Pope a unification of Italy within reach. Made famous by his political commitment, Giusti was elected twice as a Member of Parliament from 1848 in the government of Tuscany. When he but after the fall of the government Gino Capponi in some pamphlets this blamed the anarchists, he was voted out as a reactionary.

Giusti found himself misunderstood by all, and the pain of that aggravated his physical suffering. His last years were spent in the home of his friend Giusti ailing Gino Capponi in Florence, where he died 14 days before his 51st birthday on 31 March 1850.

Reception

Giusti work is still of interest, since it allows a close look at the emergence of modern Italy. With great skill to Giusti served straight in his poems of the traditional Florentine dialect, because he saw this language as the future of an entire language of Italy.

A first complete edition was still banned and destroyed for political reasons in 1852. 1868 was allowed Giovanni Fioretto some works Giusti commented publish and Gino Capponi (1871 ) and Giovanni Frassi (1885 ) tried successfully to the publication of the works Giusti. Paul Heyse was one of the first, which transferred Giusti poems into German.

Works (selection)

  • Lo stivale
  • L' incoronazione (1838 )
  • Brindisi di Girella (1840 )
  • Gli umanitari
  • Gli immobilized ed i semoventi (1841 )
  • Insurance. Bastia 1845
  • Il congresso de Birri (1846 )
  • Il Spettri del 4 septembri (1846 )
  • Delenda Carthago (1848 )
  • Arruffa popoli (1848 )
  • Giovanni Fioretto (ed.): works. Florence in 1877
  • Discorso della vita e delle opere di Giuseppe Parini. Florence 1846.
  • Gino Capponi ( Eds.): Raccolta di proverbi toscani " Florence 1871. .
  • Scritti vari in prose in e versi (1866 )
  • Studi e commenti alla Divina Commedia intorno
  • Nuova raccolta di scritti Inediti (1868 ). His very interesting correspondence * Giovanni Frassi (ed.): Epistolario. 2nd edition. Florence 1885 ( 2 vols )
  • Le più belle pagine di Giuseppe Giusti scelte as Aldo Palazzeschi. Pref. di Enrico Ghidetti. Reprint of the ed Milano, Treves, 1922 Firenze. Le Lettere, 2001, ISBN 88-7166-615-1.
  • Nunzio SABBATUCCI (ed.): Opere di Giuseppe Giusti. Torino: Unione Tip.-Ed. Torinese, 1976. ( Classici italiani, 89 ).
  • Collected Works, Paul Heyse. Row 5, Italian poets in translation. Part: 3 Three satire poet Giuseppe Giusti, Antonio Guadagnoli, Giuseppe G. Belli. Nachdr d of Ed Berlin, Hertz, 1889 Hildesheim. Olms, 1999, ISBN 3-487-10989-1.
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