Giorgio Bassani

Giorgio Bassani (died 2000) was born in Bologna on 4 March 1916 and grew up in Ferrara, in a Jewish family, a city where he lived until 1943. He was studying literature in Bologna when the racial laws were passed. Arrested in 1943 for anti-fascist activities, he then settled in Rome. Editor of the review Botteghe oscure from 1948 to 1960, he directed the literary series of Feltrinelli, where he published a posthumous novel that became famous, chaired the association Italia Nostra and died in Rome on 13 April 2000.

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• NovelThe Garden of the Finzi-ContinisIl giardino dei Finzi-ContiniGiorgio Bassani · 1962Literature