Gubernatis

Gubernatis, Count Angelo de, a versatile Italian writer, was born in 1840 at Turin. He studied under Bopp and Weber at Berlin, and was appointed professor of Sanskrit at the Institutio dei Studie Superiore, Florence, in 1863. In 1872 he published at London his Zoological Mythology, which was followed in 1878 by the Mythologie des Plantes (Paris). As a biographer he has written upon Manzoni, Giovanni Prati, and other Italian men of letters, and has given to the world the Storia Universale della Litteratura (1882-85), and a Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Writers (1879-80, French ed. with suppl. 1891). He has also written successful plays, in which Rossi appeared, and founded five journals. In 1878 he lectured on Manzoni at Oxford. He married a daughter of Bakunin.