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Angelo De Gubernatis
1840–1913
An energetic 19th-century Italian scholar, journalist, and writer, he helped bring Sanskrit studies and comparative mythology to a wider European audience. His work ranged across literature, folklore, travel, and Oriental studies, giving him a remarkably broad place in Italian intellectual life.
5 Audiobooks
Storia comparata degli usi nuziali in Italia e presso gli altri popoli indo-europei Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata dall'autore
by Angelo De Gubernatis
Letture sopra la mitologia vedica
by Angelo De Gubernatis
Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Angelo De Gubernatis
Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Angelo De Gubernatis
About the author
Born in Turin on April 7, 1840, Angelo De Gubernatis became one of Italy’s best-known men of letters in the late 19th century. He studied in Turin and Berlin, developed an early interest in philology and Sanskrit, and went on to build a career that mixed scholarship, teaching, publishing, and cultural journalism.
He is especially remembered for his work as an orientalist and comparativist. De Gubernatis taught Sanskrit, wrote on mythology and literature, and founded or edited important journals and cultural reviews. His interests were unusually wide even for his time, stretching from Indian studies and folklore to poetry, travel writing, biography, and literary criticism.
He died in Rome on February 26, 1913. Today, he stands out as a vivid example of the multilingual, internationally minded Italian intellectual of his era: ambitious, curious, and deeply involved in the literary and scholarly networks of his day.