# Giuseppe Prezzolini
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{{Short description|Italian journalist and writer (1882–1982)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Giuseppe Prezzolini
| image = Giuseppe Prezzolini.jpg
| imagesize = 200 px
| caption = Prezzolini in 1975
| pseudonym = Giuliano il Sofista
| birth_date = {{birth date|1882|7|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Perugia](/source/Perugia), Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|7|14|1882|1|27|df=y}}
| death_place = [Lugano](/source/Lugano), [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland)
| resting_place =
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Essayist
* journalist
* literary critic
}}
| period = 1903–1982
| genre =
| subject =
| movement = [Futurism](/source/Futurism_(art))
[Modernism](/source/Modernism)
| notableworks =
| awards = [Order of Merit of the Italian Republic](/source/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Italian_Republic) (1971)
| spouse = {{hlist|{{marriage|Dolores Faconti|1905|1962|reason=her death}}|{{marriage|Gioconda Savini|1962}}}}
| children = 2
| signature = Giuseppe Prezzolini signature.png
}}
'''Giuseppe Prezzolini''' (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer. He later became an American citizen.
==Biography==
Prezzolini was born in [Perugia](/source/Perugia) in January 1882, to [Tuscan parents](/source/Tuscany) from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.[{{cite book|editor1=Lawrence Rainey|editor2=Christine Poggi|editor3=Laura Wittman|title=Futurism. An Anthology|year=2009|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=978-0-300-08875-5|url=https://modernistarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ebooksclub-org__futurism__an_anthology__henry_mcbride_series_in_modernism_.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201175755/http://modernistarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ebooksclub-org__futurism__an_anthology__henry_mcbride_series_in_modernism_.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2012|accessdate=2 November 2014}}][{{cite journal|title=News & Notes|journal=PN Review|date=February 1983|volume=9|issue=3|url=http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=6752|accessdate=2 November 2014}}] In 1903 he founded together with [Giovanni Papini](/source/Giovanni_Papini) the literary journal ''Leonardo''.[ In 1908 he founded ''[La Voce](/source/La_Voce_(magazine))'', a cultural and literary journal that grew to become very influential.][[Lawrence G. Smith](/source/Lawrence_G._Smith), ''Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature'', Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p. 174]
In 1929, Prezzolini moved to the United States, where he taught at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City),[[Jonah Goldberg](/source/Jonah_Goldberg), ''Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning'', New York: Doubleday, 2007, p. 28] and served as Head of that University's [Casa Italiana](/source/Casa_Italiana). He was the author of many books in both Italian and English, including primary essays of philosophy, history and literary criticism. He died in [Lugano](/source/Lugano) on 16 July 1982.[
== Works ==
* ''La coltura italiana'' (with [Giovanni Papini](/source/Giovanni_Papini)). Florence, Soc. An. Editrice "La Voce", 1906
* ''L'arte di persuadere'', 1907
*''Cos'è il modernismo?'', 1908
*''La teoria sindacalista'', 1909
*''Benedetto Croce'', Naples, Ricciardi, 1909
*''Vecchio e nuovo nazionalismo'', (with G. Papini), 1914
*''Dopo Caporetto''. Rome, La Voce, 1919.
*''Vittorio Veneto''. Rome, La Voce, 1920.
* ''Codice della vita italiana'', 1921.
*''Benito Mussolini''. Rome, Formiggini, 1924.
*''Mi pare...''. Fiume, Edizioni Delta, 1925.
*''Giovanni Amendola''. Rome, Formiggini, 1925.
*''Vita di Nicolò Machiavelli fiorentino'', 1927.
;Published in the United States
*''Come gli Americani scoprirono l'Italia. 1750-1850'', 1933;
*''L'italiano inutile'', 1954;
*''Saper leggere'', 1956;
*''Tutta l'America'', 1958;
*''The Legacy of Italy'', 1948 (published in Italy as ''L'Italia finisce, ecco quel che resta'', Vallecchi, 1958)
;After Prezzolini's return to Italy
* ''Ideario'', 1967;
* ''Dio è un rischio'', 1969;
;After Prezzolini's move to Lugano, Switzerland
*''Manifesto dei conservatori''. Milan, Rusconi, 1972;
*''Amendola e «La Voce»''. Florence, Sansoni, 1973;
*''La Voce, 1908-1913. Cronaca, antologia e fortuna di una rivista''. Milan, Rusconi, 1974;
*''Storia tascabile della letteratura italiana''. Milan, Pan, 1976;
*''Sul fascismo. 1915-1975''. Milan, Pan, 1977;
*''Prezzolini alla finestra''. Milan, Pan, 1977.
;Memoirs and correspondence
*''Storia di un'amicizia'' (correspondence with [Giovanni Papini](/source/Giovanni_Papini)), 2 voll., 1966–68
* [Giovanni Boine](/source/Giovanni_Boine), ''Carteggio'', vol. I, Giovanni Boine – Giuseppe Prezzolini (1908-1915) pp. xviii-262, 1971
*[Giuseppe De Luca](/source/Giuseppe_De_Luca_(priest)), Giuseppe Prezzolini, ''Carteggio (1925-1962)'', 1975
*''Carteggio Giuseppe Prezzolini, [Ardengo Soffici](/source/Ardengo_Soffici). 1: 1907-1918''. A cura di Mario Richter. Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1977. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111118210609/http://www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalog/title/index.php?cmd=ext&title_id=294&subclass= (Scheda libro)]
* ''Carteggio Giuseppe Prezzolini, Ardengo Soffici. 2: 1920-1964''. Edited by Mario Richter and Maria Emanuela Raffi. Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1982
* ''Carteggio 1904-1945'', con [Benedetto Croce](/source/Benedetto_Croce), 1990
*Giuseppe Prezzolini - [Mario Missiroli](/source/Mario_Missiroli), ''Carteggio (1906-1974)'', edited by and with an introduction by Alfonso Botti, Rome-Lugano, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Dipartimento dell'Istruzione e cultura del Cantone Ticino, 1992, pp. XL-472
*[Antonio Baldini](/source/Antonio_Baldini), Giuseppe Prezzolini, ''Carteggio 1912-1962'', pp. xxii-150, 1993
*Piero Marrucchi, Giuseppe Prezzolini, ''Carteggio 1902-1918'', pp. xxvi-250, 1997
* Giovanni Angelo Abbo, Giuseppe Prezzolini, ''Carteggio 1956-1982'', pp. xii-236, 2000
*''Diario, 1900-1941''. Milan, Rusconi, 1978
*''Diario, 1942-1968''. Milan, Rusconi, 1980
;Posthumous publications
*''Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli fiorentino''. Milan, Rusconi, 1994. {{ISBN|8818700871}}.
*''Intervista sulla Destra''. Milan, Mondadori, 1994. {{ISBN|8804387246}}.
*''Diario, 1968-1982''. Milan, Rusconi, 1999.
*''Codice della vita italiana'', Robin, 2003. {{ISBN|8873710220}}.
* ''Addio a Papini'' (with Ardengo Soffici), edited by M. Attucci and L. Corsetti, Poggio a Caiano - Prato, Associazione Culturale Ardengo Soffici - Pentalinea, 2006. {{ISBN|88-86855-41-9}}.
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Category:Italian emigrants to the United States
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