Praz, Mario

Praz, Mario

▪ Italian literary critic and essayist
born Sept. 6, 1896, Rome, Italy
died March 23, 1982, Rome

      Italian literary critic and essayist, a preeminent scholar of English literature.

      Praz was educated at the University of Bologna (1914–15) before receiving degrees from the Universities of Rome (1918) and Florence (1920). He then studied at the British Museum in London (1923–25) and taught at the Universities of Liverpool (1924–32) and Manchester (1932–34) before returning to Italy to join the faculty of the University of Rome in 1934.

      Praz established his reputation with the publication of La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica (1930; “Flesh, Death, and the Devil in Romantic Literature”), which was translated into English as The Romantic Agony. It is an extensive analysis of the macabre, sensual, and mystical elements of Romanticism—in painting as well as in literature. Among his other notable works are Penisola pentagonale (1928; Unromantic Spain), Gusto neoclassico (1940; On Neoclassicism), Cronache letterarie anglosassoni (1950–66; “Anglo-Saxon Literary Chronicles”), La crisi dell'eroe nel romanzo vittoriano (1952; The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction), and Voce dietro la scene: Un'antologia personale (1980; “Voices Backstage: A Personal Anthology”). He also edited several anthologies and translated many authors—William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William), Charles Lamb (Lamb, Charles), Jane Austen (Austen, Jane), Joseph Addison (Addison, Joseph), and T.S. Eliot (Eliot, T.S.) among them—into Italian. His autobiography, La casa della vita (The House of Life), was published in 1958.

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