Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic, Germanist, poet, playwright and academic naturalized American. Biography During the academic year 1899-1900, under pressure from his father who wanted him a lawyer, enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Palermo, but already in 1900 he moved to Florence where, at the Institute of Higher Studies, he follows the courses of Girolamo Vitelli, Pio Rajna, Pasquale Villari, Achille Coen and Guido Mazzoni. From the marriage with the writer Maria Freschi two children were born Leonardo (1904) and Giovanna (1911). Obtained a divorce in America he married Elisabeth Mann, daughter of Thomas Mann, and from this marriage two other daughters Angelica and Dominica were born. Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, near Palermo (Sicily). He graduated in literature at the University of Florence in 1903. In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino. He also contributed to the Leonardo magazine.