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Ambrogio Bazzero
1851–1882
A vivid voice from Milan’s Scapigliatura movement, this Italian writer, poet, and dramatist packed intense feeling and restless imagination into a life that ended far too early. His work is often remembered for its inward, emotional tone and for the sense of modern unease running through it.
2 Audiobooks
Storia di un'anima
by Ambrogio Bazzero
Ugo: Scene del secolo X
by Ambrogio Bazzero
About the author
Born in Milan in 1851, Ambrogio Bazzero was an Italian writer, poet, and dramatist associated with the Scapigliatura, the rebellious literary and artistic movement that took shape in northern Italy in the late nineteenth century. He died in Milan in 1882, still very young, but left behind a body of work that kept his name alive among readers of Italian literature.
Bazzero is especially linked with Storia di un'anima, the work for which he is best known today. His writing is often described as intense, personal, and emotionally charged, reflecting both the experimental spirit of the Scapigliatura and his own attraction to troubled inner life, extreme feeling, and literary idealism.
Alongside fiction and prose, he also worked in drama and showed strong interests in history and art. That mix of literary ambition, sensitivity, and early loss gives his career a haunting quality, making him one of those authors whose small output still carries a distinct atmosphere.