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Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. He wrote about the Jewish community in Ferrara under Fascism, and edited the works of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and others.
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian author and editor who wrote novels and stories about Jewish life in Ferrara, Italy. He also edited literary journals and received several prizes for his works, such as The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Heron.
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Apr 13, 2000 · Died. April 13, 2000. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny.
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Nov 9, 2018 · In “The Novel of Ferrara,” Giorgio Bassani retrofits his novellas and stories into a sprawling portrait of a community destroyed by historical hatreds.
Apr 14, 2000 · Giorgio Bassani, the author of the classic modern novel ''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,'' died today in the San Camillo hospital in Rome. He was 84.
Feb 17, 2019 · The Holocaust changed Italian Jewish life. Giorgio Bassani's "Novel of Ferrara," including "Garden of the Finzi-Continis," chronicled the shift.
The Italian Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani lived to be 84 years old, and he spent most of his adult life in Rome, where he was a prominent editor and man of letters. But almost all of his fiction...
