List: Italian literary critics

by likeorhate

•  Umberto Eco

  Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Gasparo Gozzi

  Gasparo, count Gozzi (December 4, 1713 – December 26, 1786) was an Italian critic and dramatist. The brother of Carlo Gozzi, he was born in Venice. In 1739, he married the poet Luise Bergalli, and she undertook the management of the theatre of Sant'Angelo, Venice. Her husband supplied the performers with dramas chiefly translated from the French. The theatre lost money, but meanwhile Gozzi had built a reputation for his contributions to the Gazzetta Veneta.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Alessandro Baricco

  Alessandro Baricco (born January 25, 1958, in Turin) is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. He currently lives in Rome with his wife and two sons.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Giovanni Papini

  Giovanni Papini (January 9, 1881 - July 8, 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Francesco de Sanctis

  Francesco de Sanctis (March 28, 1817 – December 29, 1883) was an Italian literary critic, considered the most important scholar of Italian language and literature in the 19th century.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Pietro Citati

  Pietro Citati is a famous Italian writer and literary critic. He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino. In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Lodovico Castelvetro

  Lodovico Castelvetro (c.1505-1571) was an important figure in the development of neo-classicism, especially in drama. It was his reading of Aristotle that led to a widespread adoption of a tight version of the Three Unities, as a dramatic standard.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Sebastiano Timpanaro

  Sebastiano Timpanaro was an Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic. He was also a long-time Marxist who made important contributions to left-wing political causes.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Enzo Siciliano

  Enzo Siciliano (May 27, 1934 – June 9, 2006) was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual. Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI (Italian State Television). He died in 2006, aged 72, from complications of diabetes.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Carlo L. Golino

  Golino, Carlo Luigi was an Italian American who taught Italian literature at many colleges in the United States Dr. Golino received his B.A. from City College of New York (1936); an M.A. (Italian literature) from Columbia University (1937); an M.A. (oriental languages) from the University of Colorado (1944); and his Ph.D. in romance languages and literature from the University of California, Berkeley (1948).

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Camillo Almici

  Camillo Almici (2 November 1714 – 30 December 1779) was a priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, of distinguished theological attainments.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

  Giuseppe Antonio Borghese (November 12, 1882 – December 4, 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Salvatore Quasimodo (August 20, 1901 - June 14, 1968) was an Italian author. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times. " Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Gianni Celati

  Gianni Celati (born 1937) is an Italian writer, translator and literary critic.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Luigi Chiarelli

  Luigi Chiarelli (7 July 1880 – 20 December 1947) was an Italian playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories who is chiefly known as a founder of the teatro grottesco, or Theatre of the Grotesque, after the subtitle of one of his plays.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Giuseppe Pontiggia

  Giuseppe Pontiggia (September 25, 1934 - June 27, 2003) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting from 1961. His first novel was L'arte della fuga of 1968.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Nuccio Ordine

  Nuccio Ordine (born 1958) is an Italian professor, philosopher and one of the world's top experts on Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Cesare Segre

  Cesare Segre (born April 10, 1928) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS). He lived and studied in Turin, where he was awarded his degree in 1950, a pupil of Benvenuto Terracini and famous uncle Santorre Debenedetti.

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Piero Boitani

  Piero Boitani is an Italian literary critic. Born in Rome in 1947, he received his Ph.D. from Cambridge while teaching there and has taught in the Universities of Pescara and Perugia. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the "Sapienza" University of Rome and teaches at the Universities of Notre Dame and of Italian Switzerland.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%