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The city of Ferrara decided to commemorate his life by giving his name to the Communal Library and the Urban Park in the Northern part of the city. Bassani received the Charles Veillon [fr], the Strega, the Campiello, the Viareggio and the Nelly Sachs prizes. He collaborated on several screenplays.
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.
Bassani, who had to publish his early works under a pseudonym (Giacomo Marchi), became involved in the antifascist movement in the early 1940s and was briefly arrested in 1943. After World War II he settled in Rome, where he continued his writing career, while still maintaining a home in Ferrara.
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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.
Sep 5, 2024 · Born in Bologna into a well-to-do Ferrarese family of Jewish origin, Giorgio Bassani grew up and completed his secondary education in Ferrara, the city in which all his works of fiction are set.
When, in August 1945, Geo Josz reappeared in Ferrara, the only survivor of the 183 members of the Jewish community whom the Germans had deported to Germany in the autumn of 1943, and all of whom were generally believed to have ended up in the gas chambers, no one in the city at first recognized him.”
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Mar 4, 2022 · Like much of his fiction, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his upbringing as a member of an upper middle-class Jewish family in Ferrara, the city in Emilia-Romagna, during the rise of Mussolini’s Fascists and the onset of World War Two.
