Novelist and Liberal Catholic
Fogazzaro was born on 25 March 1842 and died on 7 March 1911. He was an Italian novelist and a proponent of Liberal Catholicism.
Literature
Antonio Fogazzaro
Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism whose fiction explored conflicts between duty and passion, faith and reason.
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. Villa Pliniana near Como and its atmosphere inspired his novel Malombra.
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Conflicts in his fiction
Fogazzaro's work repeatedly examines conflicts between duty and passion, faith and reason. These tensions sometimes lead his troubled characters to mystical experiences.
Seven Nobel nominations
Fogazzaro was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
Villa Pliniana and Malombra
Villa Pliniana and its atmosphere inspired Fogazzaro's novel Malombra.
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