Angelo de Gubernatis

Angelo de Gubernatis studied at University of Turin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The recorded working language is Italian and German. The field of work recorded is oriental studies and Sanskrit. Employment is recorded with University of Florence and Sapienza University of Rome. Works named in the authority record are Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour. Distinctions recorded are Bordin Prize, Order of the Crown and Imperial Order of the Rose.

• Honorific Prefix — Count • Born — 7 April 1840 • Birthplace — Turin, Italy • Died — 26 February 1913 • Place of death — Rome, Kingdom of Italy • Occupation — * Philologist • poet • Awards — Nobel Prize nominee

In 1862, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit at Florence, but having married a cousin of the Socialist Bakunin and become interested in his views he resigned his appointment and spent some years in travel. He was reappointed, however, in 1867; and in 1891 he was transferred to the Sapienza University of Rome. He became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet. He founded the Italia letteraria (1862), the Rivista orientale (1867), the Civiltà italiana and Rivista europea (1869), the Bollettino italiano degli studii orientali (1876) and the Revue internationale (1883), and in 1887 became director of the Giornale della società asiatica. In 1878 he started the Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. He also published a similar anthology for the visual arts and architecture. His Oriental and mythological works include the Piccola enciclopedia indiana (1867), the Fonti vediche (1868), a famous work on zoological mythology (1872), and another on plant mythology (1878). Between 1881 and 1884 he conceived and directed a magazine for young women titled Cordelia, and in the first issue, he invited readers to send in something to be published. One very early contributor, who later became the magazine's director, was Maria Majocchi who, at that time, preferred the pseudonym Margheritina di Cento and later became widely known as Jolanda. De Gubernatis also edited the encyclopaedic Storia universale della letteratura (1882–1885). His work in verse includes the dramas Gala, Romolo, Il re Nala, Don Rodrigo, Savitri, etc. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886. In later years he published a series of lectures on Italian poetry (1907), and a Dictionnaire internationale des écrivains du monde latin (1905–1906). He died in Rome, on 26 February 1913.

Angelo de Gubernatis worked in oriental studies and Sanskrit. He was employed by University of Florence and Sapienza University of Rome. He belonged to Accademia della Crusca, Romanian Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Serbian Learned Society and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Angelo de Gubernatis is recorded as having received Bordin Prize, Order of the Crown and Imperial Order of the Rose.