Federico De Roberto

Annamaria Pagliaro (Monash University)

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 16 Jan 1861
Died 26 Jul 1927
Activity 1887-1927

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Journalist

Resources

De Roberto's Works

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Federico De Roberto, Italian critic, journalist and writer, is best known for his masterpiece, the historical novel

I Viceré

(translated into English as

The Viceroys

by Archibald Colquhoun and recently reprinted with an introduction by Mario Moretti). He was born in Naples on January16th, 1861, son of Federico de Roberto senior, an army captain, and Marianna degli Asmundi, descendent of an old aristocratic family from Catania. Following the death of his father in a train accident in 1873, the family moved permanently to Catania where De Roberto lived most of his life with his mother, whose dominating influence, even in the long periods he spent in Milan and Rome, is documented in an intense correspondence (Zappulla Muscarà). De Roberto never married, but had two important relationships…

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Citation: Pagliaro, Annamaria. "Federico De Roberto". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 September 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13622, accessed 21 November 2024.]