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Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography. Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny.
Giorgio Bassani è stato uno scrittore, poeta e politico italiano, fondatore e poi presidente di Italia Nostra dal 1965 al 1980.
Giorgio Bassani (born March 4, 1916, Bologna, Italy—died April 13, 2000, Rome) was an Italian author and editor noted for his novels and stories examining individual lives played out against the background of modern history.
Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L. Ariosto in Ferrara.
Nov 9, 2018 · In “The Novel of Ferrara,” Giorgio Bassani retrofits his novellas and stories into a sprawling portrait of a community destroyed by historical hatreds.
Sep 16, 2015 · Giorgio Bassani’s tales of a real and imagined Ferrara discomfited childhood friends and neighbors because they exposed insular attitudes and broke a taboo against delving into the fate...
Apr 14, 2000 · The singular achievement of Giorgio Bassani, who has died aged 84, was to transcend all the various backgrounds which reached out to claim him for their own.
Apr 14, 2000 · Giorgio Bassani, the author of the classic modern novel ''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,'' died today in the San Camillo hospital in Rome. He was 84.
Feb 17, 2019 · The Holocaust changed Italian Jewish life. Giorgio Bassani's "Novel of Ferrara," including "Garden of the Finzi-Continis," chronicled the shift.
Sep 28, 2016 · Giorgio Bassani is best known for the great sequence of five novels and a collection of short stories, first published separately between 1950s and 1970s which, after a process of constant linguistic revisions, were finally published in 1980 as ll Romanzo di Ferrara.
