Alessandro d'Ancona
Alessandro d'Ancona · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1835, Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) — 1914, Florence, Italy
Italy
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Alessandro d'Ancona was an Italian literary and drama critic and scholar, professor at the University of Pisa, a founder of the modern historical method in Italian literary studies through his work on early Italian poetry and popular tradition. He was Jewish, born into an Italian Jewish family, and was also active in the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unification. His editions and studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature remain foundational.
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Literary & drama critic
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