Arturo Graf
Arturo Graf (18 January 1848 – 30 May 1913), was an Italian poet and literary critic.
Arturo Graf (18 January 1848 – 30 May 1913), was an Italian poet and literary critic.
He was born in Athens, Greece, to a father born in Nuremberg, and a mother from Ancona. His father was a merchant but with wide-ranging literary interests and fluent in multiple languages. As a boy, the family moved to Trieste. Arturo, who spoke both Greek and Italian, travelled extensively through Italy during his youth. Circa 1855, after the death of his father, the family lived with his maternal uncle for a time in Braila, Romania. There he learned Latin with private tutors. In time, he moved with his mother to Naples to further his studies. He continued to travel through Italy, graduating from Liceo in 1867 and enrolling in University to study law. After graduating, he briefly moved back to Romania to work in what was now his brother's business, but was back in Rome by 1874. In these years, he composed some books of poetry.
He was educated at the University of Naples and became a lecturer on Italian literature in Rome, till in 1876 he was appointed professor of Comparative History of Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Turin. [1] In 1882 he became professor of Italian literature at Turin. Afflicted with various ailments during life, he stepped down as a professor in 1910.
He was one of the founders of the Giornale della letteratura italiana, and his publications include valuable prose criticism. he also published in other journals such as Nueva Antologia, Rivista Europea, Rivista di Filologia e d'istruzione classica, Rivist di fillologia romanza, and rivista di filosofia scientifica. He is best known as a poet. His various volumes of verse—Poesie e novelle (1874), Dopo il tramonto, versi (1893), Le Danaidi (1897), Morgana (1901), Poemetti drammatici (1904), and Le rime della selva (1905) —give him a high place among the recent lyrical writers of his country. [1] He was prolific in his literary analysis. He wrote the romance novel Il riscatto (1901). [2]
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