Alessandro d'Ancona

Training under Giacinto Casella is recorded. Michele Barbi, Giovanni Rosini and Ireneo Sanesi are recorded as having studied under Alessandro d'Ancona. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is literary studies, literature and literary criticism. Employment is recorded with University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore. Positions recorded include mayor of Pisa and Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Distinctions recorded are Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

• Born — 20 February 1835 • Died — 9 November 1914 • Name — Alessandro D'Ancona • Birthplace — Pisa, Italy • Occupation — Writer

He was born in Pisa, to a wealthy Jewish family, and educated in Florence; at the age of eighteen he published his essay on the life and work of the philosopher Tommaso Campanella. In 1855 Ancona went to Turin, nominally to study law, but in reality to act as intermediary between the Tuscan Liberals and Cavour; he was an intimate friend of Luigi Carlo Farini and represented Tuscany in the Società Nazionale. On the fall of the Austrian dynasty in Tuscany (27 April 1859), he returned to Florence, where he edited the newly founded newspaper La Nazione. In 1861 he was appointed professor of Italian literature at the University of Pisa. In 1904 became a member of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Florence.

Among his works the following may be mentioned: Opera di Tommaso Campanella, 2 vols. (Turin, 1854); Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV., XV., e XVI. (3 vols., Florence, 1872); Origini del Teatro in Italia (2 vols., Florence, 1877); La Poesia popolare italiana (Livorno, 1878), besides several volumes of literary essays, editions of the works of Dante and other early Italian writers, etc.

Alessandro d'Ancona worked in literary studies, literature and literary criticism. He was employed by University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore. Recorded positions include mayor of Pisa and Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore. He belonged to Accademia della Crusca, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Academy of Sciences of Turin. Recorded as writer, politician, journalist, literary critic and literary scholar.