GIACOSA, GIUSEPPE. - Playwright and short-story writer, b. at Colleretto Parella (Ivrea) on 21 Oct. 1847, d. there on 2 Sept. 1906.

He began his literary activity very young, always prolific and tireless: lectures, speeches, historical and patriotic articles, poems, narrative prose culminating in Genti e cose della montagna, in Novelle e paesi valdostani (his most genuine and flavorful work), I Castelli Valdostani and in Impressioni d'America, some thirty among dramas, one-act plays, opera librettos, and comedies, among which the most important are Tristi amori, I Diritti dell'anima and Come le foglie (see the whole Teatro, edited by P. Nardi, 2 vols., Milan 1948). With his facile yet subtle psychology, G. illustrated the small sentimental crises of the bourgeois society of the end of the century, whose problems and passions he knew how to understand and exploit.

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BIBL.: E. Marangoni, Il capolavoro di G. G., Milan 1906; H. Bordeaux, La vie au théâtre, Paris 1909, passim; B. Croce, La lett. della nuova Italia, II, Bari 1914, pp. 213-30; L. Garajo Armò, Il teatro di G. G., Palermo 1925; M. Rumor, G. G., Padua 1940; G. Petrocchi, Scrittori piemontesi del secondo Ottocento, Turin 1948, pp. 37-49; D. Donelli, G. G., Milan 1948; P. Nardi, G. G., ibid. 1949.

Giorgio Petrocchi

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Giacosa, Giuseppe

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