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PIRANDELLO (life)  Pirandello
was born near Girgenti (Agrigento) in Sicily,
on June 1867, the son of a sufur merchant who wanted him to enter commerce.
But he wanted to study, so he went to Palermo, and in 1887 to the University
of Rome. After a quarrel, he went to the University of Bonn, Germany,
where in 1891 he gained his doctorate philology for a thesis on the dialect
of Girgenti. In 1894 he married a wealthy sulfur merchant's daughter, Antonietta Portulano and this marriage gave him financial indipendence, allowing him to write. After a sulfur mine disaster in 1903, Pirandello was forced to earn his living not only hy writing but also teaching Italian at a teacher's college in Rome. Meanwhile his wife developed a persecutio mania and in 1919 she ended in a senatorium. This was a bitter experience for him and determined the theme of his most characteristic work - the exploration of the tightly closed world of the forever changeable human personality. In 1934, he won the Nobel Prize for literature, and two years later he died. Hypertext produced by the 5th A class of Istituto Tecnico Commerciale e per il Turismo "A. Rizza" in Siracusa |
