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GUBERNATIS, ANGELO DE, COUNT (1840– )

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GUBERNATIS, ANGELO DE, COUNT (1840– )

GUBERNATIS, ANGELO DE, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT (1840– ) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

man of letters, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

TURIN

Turin and educated there and at See also:

Berlin, where he studied See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology. In 1862 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

SANSKRIT

Sanskrit at See also:

Florence, but having married a See also:

cousin of the Socialist See also:

BAKUNIN, MIKHAIL (1814-1876)

Bakunin and become interested in his views he resigned his See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment and spent some years in travel. He was reappointed, however, in 1867; and in 1891 he was transferred to the university of See also:

Rome. He became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet. He founded the Italia letteraria (1862), the Rivista orientale (1867), the Civitta italiana and Rivista europea (1869), the Bollettino italiano degli studii orientali (1876) and the Revue internationale (1883), and in 1887 became director of the Giornale della society asiatica. In 1878 he started the Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. His See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental and mythological See also:

WORKS

works include the Piccola enciclopedia See also:

INDIANA

indiana (1867), the Fonti vediche (1868), a famous See also:

WORK

work on zoological See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology (1872), and another onplant mythology (1878). He also edited the encyclopaedic See also:

Stone universale della letteratura (1882–1885). His work in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse includes the dramas See also:

Cato, Romolo, Il re Nala, See also:

Don Rodrigo, Savitri, &c.

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