Giovanni Papini

Papini in 1921 Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.

As one of the founders of the journals ''Leonardo'' (1903) and ''Lacerba'' (1913), he conceived literature as "action" and gave his writings an oratory and irreverent tone. Though self-educated, he was an influential iconoclastic editor and writer, with a leading role in Italian futurism and the early literary movements of youth. Working in Florence, he actively participated in foreign literary philosophical and political movements such as the French intuitionism of Bergson and the Anglo-American pragmatism of Peirce and James. Promoting the development of Italian culture and life with an individualistic and dreamy conception of life and art, he acted as a spokesman for Roman Catholic religious beliefs.

Papini's literary success began with ''Il crepuscolo dei filosofi'' ("The Twilight of the Philosophers"), published in 1906, and his 1913 publication of his autobiographical novel ''Un uomo finito'' ("A finished man").

Due to his ideological choices, Papini's work was almost forgotten after his death, although it was later re-evaluated and appreciated again: in 1975, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges called him an "undeservedly forgotten" author. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Papini Giovanni
    Published 1954
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    by Papini, Giovanni
    Published 1992
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    by Papini , Giovanni 1881-1956
    Published 1920
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    by Papini , Giovanni 1881-1956
    Published 1916
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    by Papini , Giovanni 1881-1956
    Published 1992
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    Published 1913
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    by Boutroux , Émile
    Published 1909
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    by Galilei , Galileo
    Published 1909
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    by Ciampi , Alberto
    Published 1989
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