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Vittorio Imbriani
1840–1886
A restless, sharp-minded voice of 19th-century Italy, he moved between literature, scholarship, and political life. He is especially remembered for his love of popular traditions and for bringing folklore, dialect, and satire into his writing.
4 Audiobooks
La novellaja fiorentina Fiabe e novelline stenografate in Firenze dal dettato popolare
by Vittorio Imbriani
Fame usurpate
by Vittorio Imbriani
Mastr'Impicca
by Vittorio Imbriani
About the author
Born in Naples in 1840, Vittorio Imbriani grew up in a family shaped by liberal politics and periods of exile. Sources agree that he studied in Zurich with Francesco De Sanctis and later continued his education in Berlin, where he encountered Hegelian thought.
Imbriani became known as a writer, literary historian, and folklorist. Alongside fiction and criticism, he devoted serious attention to Italian oral traditions—folk poetry, songs, fairy tales, and regional culture—which gave his work a lively connection to everyday speech and local life.
He died in 1886, still relatively young, but left behind a reputation for intellectual energy and an original literary personality. His work stands out for its mix of scholarship, patriotism, experimentation, and a deep curiosity about the voices of ordinary people.