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Bassani died in 2000 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Ferrara, the same place where he located the graves of the family Finzi-Contini. He was survived by his estranged wife Valeria and their two children, Paola (born 1 September 1945) and Enrico (born 29 June 1949).
Aug 26, 2022 · Going back to discrimination: he analyzes the mechanism with laser precision. Today we have experienced Coronavirus: in a short time, our lives, our society closed down and changed so radically. Bassani shows us the mechanisms of discrimination: the horrors of being a full member of society one day and the next day being considered a pariah.
Valerio Cappozzo will discuss original materials from the correspondence between Bassani and the New York Times as well as with other journals published in New York, a city where Bassani’s work was and continues to be published.
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Mar 4, 2022 · The Finzi-Continis live in a lavish walled estate, which becomes a meeting place for other wealthy Jews, who find sanctuary there. The narrator - himself called Giorgio - finds his love for Micòl ultimately unrequited in a poignant portrait of a family and friends enjoying their final days of freedom before the horrors of the world outside the ...
The Italian Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani lived to be 84 years old, and he spent most of his adult life in Rome, where he was a prominent editor and man of letters. But almost all of his fiction...
Sep 16, 2015 · The city’s former prison, where Bassani was held for resisting Mussolini’s rule, is now being turned into the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah.
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The city’s medieval walls and the streets of its one-time Jewish ghetto, still intact and visible today, provide physical metaphors for the boundaries that in the centuries before World War II separated the Jewish community from its Christian neighbors while also embracing its members within the shared borders.
