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Gaetano Fedele Polidori (5 August 1763 – 16 December 1853) was an Italian writer, political and scholar living in Highgate. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–1778), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany. Polidori studied law at the University of Pisa.
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The Rossetti parents were both academic and educated. Gabriele Rossetti was an Italian poet and political exile from Vasto, near Naples, where he is commemorated in a statue. After fleeing the Kingdom of Naples with a price on his head, he emigrated to England in 1824, and established a career as a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian in London. He...
Frances’ English mother, Anna Maria Polidari, née Pierce, had also been educated by her academic parents and had worked as a governess. Suffering from ill-health and often bedridden, she moved permanently to the family farmhouse in Homer Green, then a quiet and isolated community. She was a strict High Anglican, raising her daughters in her faith w...
Gabriele recorded his youngest daughter playing at Holmer Green “with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, taking tentative steps in the garden ‘like a butterfly’ among the flowers and current bushes”. Late in life, Christina Rossetti, wrote to the journalist Edmund Gosse that her literary inspiration had started during her happy childhood in Holmer Gre...
Christina’s poems were first published commercially in the literary magazine the Atheneum in 1848 and The Germ, the magazine founded by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in 1850. However, Gaetano Polidori printed a collection of her poems Verses in 1847, when Christina was just 16. Printed on Polidori’s private printing press, this collection was dis...
Gaetano Fedele Polidori ( Bientina, 5 agosto 1763 – Londra, 16 dicembre 1853) è stato un drammaturgo, poeta, traduttore, scrittore ed editore italiano, emigrato a Londra .
29 de oct. de 2021 · As his surname suggests, Polidori's father Gaetano was an Italian émigré who had moved to England in 1790. Among other pursuits, he had translated various works, including Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , considered to be the first Gothic novel – so young John perhaps had the genre in his blood.
Gaetano Fedele Polidori was an Italian writer, political and scholar living in Highgate. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–1778), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany.
8 de may. de 2015 · He was the son of Gaetano Polidori, a Tuscan man of letters who, after being secretary to the celebrated dramatist Alfieri, had settled in London as a teacher of Italian, and of his English wife, a Miss Pierce; the parents (my maternal grand-parents) survived to a great age, only dying in 1853.
Gaetano Fedele Polidori (1763–1853) was an Italian writer, political and scholar living in London. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–1778), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany.
