Alfredo Panzini
1863–1939
Biography
Alfredo Panzini, born at Senigallia on the Adriatic coast in 1863, wrote novels, criticism and history, and also compiled dictionaries. He died in 1939. As a boy he spent time at Rimini and was schooled in Venice, and then he read literature at the University of Bologna, where he came under the influence of the poet Giosuè Carducci, whose disciple he remained all his life. His graduating thesis dealt with Teofilo Folengo, the Renaissance poet who wrote comic verse in mixed Latin.
He spent years as a schoolteacher, first in a small southern town and then in Milan, and he wrote steadily alongside the classroom. Panzini produced novels, humorous stories and essays, and he became a popular writer, admired for a light, amused and observant manner. His interest in language also led him to compile a dictionary of modern Italian usage.
The site holds Io cerco moglie!, a humorous novel. Its narrator, Cavalier Ginetto Sconer, is a self-assured former travelling salesman who decides it is time to marry and goes about finding a wife with the method of a man of business. His account of candidates, prospective in-laws, dinners and small disasters amounts to a gentle satire of middle-class Italian life after the First World War.
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Books
Io cerco moglie! Romanzo
by Alfredo Panzini
Cavalier Ginetto Sconer, a solid, self-satisfied former travelling salesman, decides it is time to take a wife and goes about it with the method of a man of business. His account of candidates, prospective in-laws, dinners and misadventures is a gentle satire of bourgeois Italy…
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