Alessandro Bonsanti
Alessandro Bonsanti | |
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| Born | November 25, 1904 |
| Died | February 17, 1984 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Writer |
Alessandro Bonsanti(November 25, 1904 inFlorence– February 17, 1984 in Florence) was a writer and Italian politician.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Alessandro Bonsanti, writer, was born inFlorence.Very young, after completing his studies, he moved to work inMilan,where he worked for three years as an employee at a local bank, collaborating in the magazineLa Fiera Literaria,where he published his first Brigants story inMaremma.
Returning to Florence, he came into contact with the literary environment that animatedSolaria(the European magazine, which existed from 1926 to 1936), who was a collaborator and director, publishing military narrative (1927)The loving servant(1929) andthe whims of 'Adriana(1934), republished in distant Racconti 1962, texts of the past that have to do with a distant social history. In 1937 Bonsanti founded and assumed the direction of publishing at a magazine that collected the inheritance ofSolaria.
In 1941 he took over as la direzione del Gabinetto scientifìco-letterario Vieusseux (Director of the Vieusseux Scientific-Literature Cabinet), left vacant byEugenio Montale.This was a prestigious assignment that Bonsanti held with great willingness and firmness, making for almost forty years an untiring promoter of various cultural initiatives.
During the war, he published two books:Dialoghi e altre prose(Dialogues and Other Prose) (1940) andIntroduzione al gran viaggio (Introduction to the Great Trip) (1944). The following year he assumed the position of Director ofIl Mondo,which he himself founded withEugenio Montaleand Arturo Loria. Other books to remember are:La vipera e il toro(1955) andcavalli di bronzo(1956).
In recent years Bonsanti's interests were also addressed to active politics; in this period he was approaching the Republican Party ofSpadoliniand in 1983 was elected mayor of Florence, head of a pentapartito junta, which was not completed due to his death in 1984.
His daughter Sandra, a journalist, was a member of the Republic.
Alessandro Bonsanti is buried in theCimitero delle Porte Santein Florence.
He was nominated for theStrega Prize.
Main works
[edit]- La serva amorosa,Firenze, 1929
- I capricci dell'Adriana,Firenze, 1934[3]
- Racconto militare,Firenze, 1937
- Dialoghi e altre prose,Firenze, 1940
- Introduzione al gran viaggio,Roma, 1944
- La vipera e il toro,Firenze, 1955
- Sopra alcuni personaggi eventuali,Sarzana, 1956
- I cavalli di bronzo,Firenze, 1956
- Racconti lontani,Milano, 1962
- La buca di San Colombario,4 vol., Milano, 1964–1973[4]
- La nuova stazione di Firenze,Milano, 1965[5]
- Teatro domestico,Milano, 1970
- Portolani d'agosto,Milano, 1978[6]
References
[edit]- ^STAJANO, CORRADO."Cadorna, le ossessioni di un generale".Corriere della Sera(in Italian).RetrievedNovember 21,2017.
- ^"Vieusseux, nelle foto in bianco e nero il ricordo dell'alluvione".Repubblica.it(in Italian). October 20, 2016.RetrievedNovember 21,2017.
- ^Bonsanti, Alessandro (1934).I capricci dell'Adriana(in Italian). Edizioni di Solaria.
- ^Bonsanti, Alessandro (1973).La buca di San Colombano: Apologia dell' innocenza(in Italian). Arnoldo Mondadori.
- ^Bonsanti, Alessandro (1965).La nuova stazione di Firenze(in Italian). Mondadori.
- ^"Bonsanti, Alessandro 1904–1984 | Encyclopedia.com".www.encyclopedia.com.RetrievedJanuary 14,2021.
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