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Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements suc…
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Born 9 January 1881 · Died 8 July 1956 · Q529858
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Giovanni Papini
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1975· 1 entry
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges called him an "undeservedly forgotten" author
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1962· 1 entry
The artist asked his biographer Pierre Daix, to expose the pretend interview, which he did in Les Lettres Françaises
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1956· 1 entry
Died 1956-07-08.
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Bancarella Selection Prize for The Devil (1954).
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1943· 1 entry
Papini entered a Franciscan convent in La Verna, under the name "Fra' Bonaventura"
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1940· 1 entry
Papini's Storia della Letteratura Italiana was published in Nazi Germany with the title Eternal Italy: The Great in its Empire of Letters (in German: Ewiges Italien – Die Großen im Reich seiner Dichtung)
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1937· 1 entry
Papini published the only volume of his History of Italian Literature, which he dedicated to Benito Mussolini: "to Il Duce, friend of poetry and of the poets", being awarded top positions in academia, especially in the s
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1935· 1 entry
When the Fascist authorities confirmed Papini's "impeccable reputation" through the appointment
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1921· 1 entry
Was translated into twenty-three languages and became an international bestseller
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1913· 1 entry
(right before Italy's entry into World War I) he started Lacerba (1913–15)
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1912· 1 entry
Published his best-known work, the autobiographical novel Un Uomo Finito (A Man — Finished in the United Kingdom and The Failure in the United States)
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1908· 1 entry
Then L'Anima together with Giovanni Amendola and Prezzolini
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1907· 2 entries
Papini married Giacinta Giovagnoli; the couple had two daughters
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Giovanni Papini founded several other magazines
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1906· 2 entries
"Il Tragico Quotidiano" ("Everyday Tragic"), in 1907 "Il Pilota Cieco" ("The Blind Pilot") and Il crepuscolo dei filosofi ("The Twilight of the Philosophers")
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And his 1913 publication of his autobiographical novel Un uomo finito ("A finished man")
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1903· 1 entry
Founded the magazine Il Leonardo, to which he contributed articles under the pseudonym of "Gian Falco
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-01-09.
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