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Frances Lavinia Rossetti was the English-born half-Italian daughter of Italian refugee Gaetano Polidori, a teacher and translator who had once been secretary to the Italian dramatist and poet Vittorio Alfieri.
28 ott 2021 · 28 Ottobre 2021. L’Archivio Calamandrei di Montepulciano custodisce un carteggio 1946-1947 tra Ciro ed Egidia Polidori e Gaetano Salvemini, a suo tempo donato dalla figlia Serenella Polidori. Particolarmente significative per il contenuto umano e il tono amicale le lettere che si scambiano Egidia Calamandrei e Gaetano Salvemini, che ...
1 ott 2023 · Gaetano Polidori (1764-1853) was an Italian writer and scholar living in London. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714-78), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany.
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.
Gaetano—who was still alive when DGR wrote the review—had taken up his uncle's heroic poem Losario and added to it three cantos. DGR translates the Italian verse in the review, and in a note to the review by WMR in his edition of 1911 , he comments that “My brother has, in his translations in this article, improved—such at least is my opinion—upon the originals”.
John William Polidori. John William Polidori (7 September 1795 -24 August 1821) was the son of Gaetano Polidori, a Tuscan man of letters and at one point secretary to the dramatist Vittorio Alfieri, who had emigrated to England where he married a Miss Pierce and settled in London as a teacher of Italian. John was educated at Ampleforth ...
Note: The lithograph, along with a lithograph of Francesco Polidori, was tipped into a copy of Il Losario: Poema Eroica Romanzesco di Ser Francesco Polidori, edited and augmented by his nephew Gaetano Polidori.
