Giovanni Battista Angioletti

Luca Saltini

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 27 Nov 1896
Died 3 Aug 1961
Activity 1928-1961

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy; France; Switzerland

Activities

Primary

Journalist

Other

Prose writer

Resources

Angioletti's Works

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Giovanni Battista Angioletti (Milan 1896 - Naples 1961) was an important Italian author during the period between the two world wars. He was born into a relatively well-off family that belonged to Milan’s middle class and spent his childhood years in that city. In 1915 he was called up and, like many young men of his generation, experienced personally the drama of the First World War. On his return home at the end of hostilities, he found that society had changed and was in a state of turmoil full of dangerous tensions. He founded a somewhat short-lived cultural periodical entitled

Trifalco

, which nonetheless gave him the opportunity to get to know prominent figures in Milan’s literary world and to start to collaborate with a few of them and their publications. These included Carlo…

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Citation: Saltini, Luca. "Giovanni Battista Angioletti". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 November 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12784, accessed 26 November 2024.]