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Pirandello - Il Fu Mattia Pascal, Milano (1919)
Pirandello is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Fausto Pirandello (1899–1975), Italian painter, son of Luigi *Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer *Stefano Pirandello (1895–1972), Italian dramatist and writer, son of Luigi {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Pirandello
Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the ''Scuola romana (Roman School)''. He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. Biography After a short experience in Paris, where he met the most important artistic personalities of the time between 1920 and 1930, Pirandello entered the movement of Scuola Romana, distinguishing himself for originality and solitary exploration. His painting tends towards a quotidian realism manifested at times in the more unpleasant and pitiless aspects of life, expressed through a dense and thorny pictorial matter. His vision is an intellectualist one, which however translates even the most brutal naturalist datum into a sort of magic realism with an archaic and metaphysical taste. Pirandello's style goes from cubism, to tonalism, to realist-expressionist forms: Important in this period was his participation to the activities of literary magazine "Corrente di Vita". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Biography Early life Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in an area called "Caos" ("Chaos" in Italian, but in Sicilian dialect lit. "Trouser", from the shape of a nearby ravine), near Porto Empedocle, a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily). His father, Stefano, belonged to a wealthy family involved in the sulphur industry, and his mother, Caterina Ricci Gramitto, was also of a well-to-do background, descending from a family of the bourgeois prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Pirandello
Stefano Pirandello (14 June 1895 - Rome, 5 February 1972) was an Italian playwright and writer, also known under the pen name Stefano Landi. Life and career Born in Rome, the son of the Nobel Prize winner Luigi, Pirandello enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the Sapienza University, but left his studies in 1915 to enlist as a volunteer in the World War I.Costa, Simona (2015).Pirandello, Stefano. ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 84. Treccani. Almost immediately captured from the Austrian army, he remained imprisoned until the end of the war between Mauthausen and Planá. After the war, he started collaborating with various publications as a journalist and a short story author, using the pseudonym Stefano Landi, and also served as secretary, administrator, literary agent, collaborator and sometimes co-author of his father. In 1923 he made his debut as a dramatist with the one-act play ''I bambini'', followed from his best known drama, the autobiographical ''La c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
