Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Literature

Imbriani, Vittorio

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IMBRIANI, VITTORIO. - Writer, b. in Naples on 27 Oct. 1840, d. at Pomigliano d'Arco on 1 Jan. 1886. He was an art and literary critic, a collector of popular songs and tales, a versifier, and a short-story writer.

Incapable of a balanced vision of moral interests, he conceived of religion as a product of the "hallucinated imaginative power" (letter to De Meis in Critica, 5 [1936], pp. 380-85); his Libro di preghiere muliebri is a frigid stylistic exercise. An advocate of an Italian State with absolutist forms (cf. La croce sabanda ed altri scritti inediti, Bari 1938), he postulated, as one of the essential factors of its consolidation, reconciliation with the Church.

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BIBL.: Opere: Critica d'arte e prose narrative, edited by G. Doria (with bibl.), Bari 1937; review by E. Cione in Letteratura, 1 (1937), pp. 155-58, and by E. Carli, in La critica d'arte, 3 (1938), pp. 38-39; F. Flora, V. I. in Taverna del Parnaso, Rome 1943, pp. 11-51.

Lanfranco Fiore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 1644.

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Fiore, Lanfranco. “Imbriani, vittorio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1644. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/imbriani-vittorio.

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Fiore, Lanfranco. “Imbriani, vittorio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1644. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/imbriani-vittorio.

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  author    = {Fiore, Lanfranco},
  title     = {Imbriani, vittorio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {1644},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/imbriani-vittorio}
}

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