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Antonio Fogazzaro (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo foɡatˈtsaːro]; 25 March 1842 – 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.




Biography


Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a wealthy family. In 1864 he obtained a law degree in Turin. He then moved to Milan where he followed the scapigliatura movement. In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this line of work very soon to be a full-time novelist.
He began his literary career with Miranda, a poetical romance (1874), followed in 1876 by Valsolda, which, republished in 1886 with considerable additions, constitutes perhaps his principal claim as a poet. His novels, Malombra (1882), Daniele Cortis (1887), Misterio del Poeta (1888), obtained considerable literary success upon their first publication, but did not gain universal popularity until they were discovered and taken up by French critics in 1896.
In Fogazzaro's work there is a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. His most popular novel, Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English as The Patriot or The Little World of the Past). The novel is set in the 1850s in Valsolda, a small community on the shores of Lake Lugano where he spent most of his life. Piccolo Mondo Antico has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inner psychological turmoil of the characters.
Fogazzaro toured Italy proposing to reconcile Darwin's theory of evolution with Christianity. He found new interpretations in positivist and evolutionist theories. The Roman Catholic Church banned his novels Il Santo (1905) in April 1906 and Leila (1910) in May 1911. He died in 1911 in his birthplace, Vicenza.




Works






= Novels

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Malombra (1881)
Daniele Cortis (1885)
Il mistero del poeta (The Mystery of the Poet, 1888)
Piccolo mondo antico (The Little World of the Past, 1895)
Piccolo mondo moderno (The Man of the World, 1901)
The Poet's Mystery: A Novel (1903)
Il Santo (The Saint, 1905)
The Woman (1907)
The Politician (1908)
Leila (1910)




= Other works

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Miranda (1874, verse romance)
Valsolda (1876, lyrics collection)
Fedele (1887, short story collection)
Per un recente raffronto delle teorie di S. Agostino e di Darwin circa la creazione (in Italian). Milano: Galli. 1892.
L'origine dell'uomo e il sentimento religioso (1893, speech)
Discorsi (1898, essays)
Scienza e dolore (Science and Suffering, 1898, essay)
Il dolore nell'arte (Suffering in Art, 1901, essay)
Scene (1903, plays).
The Trilogy of Rome (1907)
Tales from the Italian and Spanish (1920)




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External links



Works by Antonio Fogazzaro at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Antonio Fogazzaro at the Internet Archive
Works by Antonio Fogazzaro, at Hathi Trust
Works by Antonio Fogazzaro: text with concordances and frequency list
Concordances and Frequency Lists of "Malombra"

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