Giovanni Battista Zuccala Locatelli

Brian Zuccala (University of the Witwatersrand)

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 19 Dec 1788
Died 1836
Activity c. 1800-1836

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Born in Italy
Active in Italy

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Teacher/ Professor

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Prose writer

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Giovanni (Battista) Zuccala (Locatelli) was born in December of 1788, just a few months before the outbreak of the French Revolution in May of the following year. Son of landowner Carlo Ambrogio, of the historical Lombard-Venetian Zuccala Locatelli family (occasionally also recorded as Zuccala De’ Locatelli and Zuccala Locatelli Del Bona), and Elena Fracasso, Zuccala holds a somewhat tangential yet unique position in the Italian cultural and literary landscape. To begin with, it is important to ‘disambiguate’ the Bergamasco-born intellectual from his homonymous uncle (1754 –1825), the clergyman and historian whose

Memorie Storiche di Bergamo

[

Chronicles of Bergamo

] (1813, now 2002) would inspire Bortolo Belotti’s own renowned history of the city and its people (1940). That might…

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Citation: Zuccala, Brian. "Giovanni Battista Zuccala Locatelli". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 September 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14428, accessed 03 December 2024.]