The Life of Lauro de Bosis

Icarus the Anti-Fascist

Joseph Farrell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

165 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5283-4 (ISBN)

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History can be unfair in its selection of those judged worthy of remembrance and those consigned to oblivion. One of the casualties of History's amnesia, Lauro de Bosis, deserves to be rescued from neglect. Lauro de Bosis deserves to be rescued from neglect. A gifted young poet born in 1901 into a cultured household in Italy where his father was one of Italy's leading poets of the age of Decadentism, he grew up to love Shelley and the Greeks. As a young man he wrote a drama on Icarus which was awarded the poetry prize at the Amsterdam Olympic Games. He fell passionately in love with Ruth Draper, then an internationally famous writer performer. However, these were the days of Mussolini's rise to power and although he was initially sympathetic, his work in America for Italian cultural bodies led to a radical change of heart over Fascism. He established the National Alliance to oppose the regime by circulating critical letters, but when his colleagues were arrested, he chose to operate alone. In 1931, he flew alone over Rome dropping anti-fascist propaganda, while being also aware he was repeating the flight of Icarus. He had insufficient fuel for the return journey and was lost in the Mediterranean, like Icarus. This book looks at the man, his personal culture, his literary work and that of Ruth Draper and above all his activities as an anti-Fascist.

Joseph Farrell is Professor Emeritus in Italian of the University of Strathclyde, UK. He has written extensively on Italian literature, including biographies of Dario Fo and Leonardo Sciascia. He has written books on Sicily, on Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa as well as a history of duelling, in addition to translating many novels and plays from Italian. He was a frequenter broadcaster on BBC cultural programmes, has worked as a theatre critic for publications such as The Scotsman and the Scottish Review of Books and published reviews and essays on cultural subjects in the Times Literary Supplement and The National. He was given the title Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana for his services to the diffusion of Italian Culture.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-0364-5283-2 / 1036452832
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5283-4 / 9781036452834
Zustand	Neuware