Vittorio Bersezio
1828–1900
Biography
Vittorio Bersezio was an Italian writer, journalist and politician who lived from 1828 to 1900. He was born in Peveragno, in the Piedmont region, and his father, a judge with liberal views, set him to study law. Even as a teenager he was drawn to the literary circles of Turin, and his first plays were staged there in the early 1850s. In 1854 he took charge of Il Fischietto, a satirical periodical that brought him a wide reputation.
From 1861, encouraged by the theatre manager Giovanni Toselli, he began writing plays in Piedmontese, the dialect of his home region. The best known of these is Le miserie 'd Monsù Travet, a comedy about a low-ranking government clerk. The name of its hero, Travet, entered Italian dictionaries as a word for a petty bureaucrat. Bersezio also founded the Gazzetta Piemontese in 1867, wrote a great many novels, and sat in the Chamber of Deputies for Cuneo from 1865 to 1870.
The site holds his novel La carità del prossimo, first published in Milan by Treves in 1868. It is one of the many novels he wrote alongside his plays and journalism, and it shows the prose side of a writer whose name lives mostly through the stage.
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Books
La carità del prossimo
by Vittorio Bersezio
Antonio Vanardi, a good-hearted and not very gifted painter, lives in a garret studio with a grumbling wife, four small children and creditors at every door. Driven by need to seek the help of charitable people, he learns what the generosity of his neighbours is really worth, in…
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