Prezzolini in 1975

Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 16 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer. He later became an American citizen.

Biography

Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.[1][2] In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.[1] In 1908 he founded La Voce, a cultural and literary journal that grew to become very influential.[3]

In 1929 he moved to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University in New York[4] and served as Head of that University's Casa Italiana. He was the author of many books in both Italian and English, including primary essays of philosophy, history and literary criticism.

He died in Lugano on 16 July 1982.[2]

Works

Published in the United States
After Prezzolini's return to Italy
After Prezzolini's move to Lugano, Switzerland
Memoirs and correspondence
Posthumous publications

References

  1. ^ a b Lawrence Rainey; Christine Poggi; Laura Wittman, eds. (2009). Futurism. An Anthology (PDF). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08875-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b "News & Notes". PN Review. 9 (3). February 1983. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  3. ^ Lawrence G. Smith, Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p. 174
  4. ^ Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, New York: Doubleday, 2007, p. 28
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