Domenico Giuliotti | |
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 Domenico Giuliotti | |
| Born | 18 February 1877 |
| Died | 12 January 1956 (aged 78) Greve in Chianti, Italy |
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| Spouse | Zina Vestri (m. 1905) |
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| Language | Italian language |
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| Subject | Religion |
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| Notable works | L'ora di Barabba Dizionario dell'omo salvatico |
Domenico Giuliotti was an Italian writer and essayist. He was a dedicated Catholic and his rigidity and severity are reflected in his numerous works.
Domenico Giuliotti was born in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, on 18 February 1877, on a farm only a few miles from the city of Florence. [1] When he was barely old enough to go to school his parents sent him to live with an uncle, in a little hamlet near his birthplace. This uncle, Virgilio, was a notary public who had become the vice pretore of the district. As a magistrate he took pride in his judicial duties, and he and his wife, having no children of their own, hoped that some day their young nephew would follow in the footsteps of his jurist uncle. Consequently, Giuliotti, much against his inclinations, eventually went to Siena to study law. Before taking a degree he moved to Rome, under the pretext, as he explained to his family, that a degree conferred by the University of Rome, whose professors were renowned, carried with it more prestige than a degree from that of Siena. [2]
During his university years Giuliotti began to exhibit strong anarchist and radical leanings. [1] As the years went by, however, his outlook changed. He was terrified at the sight of the havoc wrought by the godless principles of a godless society with its worship of wealth and of everything that wealth can buy. The situation seemed hopeless, and Giuliotti was depressed almost to the point of despair, for it seemed to him that these diabolical principles were "preparing a generation capable of making hell turn pale." [3] In his endeavor to find something to counteract these evils, Giuliotti wandered from one ideology to the other. [4] [1]
Finally, thanks to his reading the works of nineteenth century French Catholic traditionalist thinkers – De Maistre, De Bonald, Hello, Veuillot, Bloy – he went back to the faith of his childhood, "to the Eternal Church that commands and teaches from Rome," as his friend Giovanni Papini would later put it. [4]
In 1913 Giuliotti founded the journal La Torre with his friend Federigo Tozzi and used it to express deeply reactionary Catholic views. [5] The periodical was founded by Giuliotti and Tozzi with the express purpose of combatting socialism, anarchism, and everything opposed to the principles of the "Throne and the Altar." [6] Giuliotti was also one of the major collaborators of Il Frontespizio , an important cultural magazine which gathered together noteworthy Italian writers like Piero Bargellini, Giovanni Papini and Ardengo Soffici. [7]
Besides the well-known Dizionario dell'omo salvatico, written in collaboration with Papini, Giuliotti has published a score of books of poetry, tales and novels. Most of these are of a fragmentary nature, consisting of essays, sketches, book reviews, and journalistic articles such as an editor or a columnist might write. As one would expect, the spirit and the tone of these writings vary with the purpose and the content of the work. So much so, that as the French critic Marcel Brion says of Giuliotti, "in him one finds the sweetness of Jacopone da Todi, the severe and serious naturalism of Giotto's frescoes, the winged flight of Dante's terzine, and, often enough, a violence of reproach and satire that reminds one of Savonarola." [8]
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