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ANCONA, ALESSANDRO (1835– )

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ANCONA, ALESSANDRO (1835– ) , See also:Italian critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Pisa on the loth of See also:February 1835, of a wealthy Jewish See also:family, and educated in See also:Florence; at the See also:age of eighteen he published his See also:essay on the See also:life and See also:work of the philosopher Tommaso See also:Campanella. In 1855 Ancona went to See also:Turin, nominally to study See also:law, but in reality to See also:act as intermediary between the Tuscan Liberals and See also:Cavour; he was an intimate friend of See also:Luigi Carlo See also:Farini (q.v.) and represented See also:Tuscany in the Society Nazionale. On the fall of the See also:Austrian See also:dynasty in Tuscany (See also:April 27, 1859) he returned to Florence, where he edited the newly founded newspaper La Nazione. In 1861 he was appointed See also:professor of Italian literature at the university of Pisa. Among his See also:works the following may be mentioned: See also:Opera di Tommaso Campanella, 2 vols. (Turin, 18J4); Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XI V., X V., e X VI. (3 vols., Florence, 1872); Origini del Teatro in Italia (2 vols., Florence, 1877); La Poesia popolare italiana (Livorno, 1878), besides several volumes of See also:literary essays, See also:editions of the works of See also:Dante and other See also:early Italian writers, &c.

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