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Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.
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.
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Feb 17, 2019 · Bassani, a Ferrarese Jew born in Bologna during World War I, initially published his masterwork in Italian in 1974; its most famous component, “In the Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” was...
Jul 18, 2014 · The Ferrara of Giorgio Bassani. Words by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards. Few Italian writers are so bound by their singularity of purpose and literary output to one place as Giorgio Bassani is to the delta city of Ferrara. Bassani was born in 1916 to a well-off Jewish family; his father was a doctor.
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.
Apr 17, 2019 · G iorgio Bassani’s critically acclaimed masterpiece, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, was published in 1962, in the immediate post–Eichmann trial era, in which interest in the Shoah had grown markedly.
Bassani created a unique imagined world out of the provincial city of Fer - rara, one that crystallized important ingredients of nineteenth- and twenti- eth-century Italian history, with a strong inflexion of Italian Jewish History.
