Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

thumb|Giuseppe Antonio Borgese portraited by Giovanni Costetti (1904) Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic, Germanist, poet, playwright and academic naturalized American. Quotes The Italian nation rose, as did all the others in Europe, about the close of the Middle Ages; but its birth was different. Italy was not the creation of kings and warriors; she was the creature of a poet, Dante.The foreigners who identify Italy with Dante are essentially right. His character and work had a decisive influence which grew in the centuries, until they became paramount to the leading class of the Italian people. It is hardly an exaggeration to hold that he was to Italy what Moses may have been to Israel. Goliath: The March of Fascism, The Viking Press, New York, 1937, p. 7. External links Category:1882 births Category:1952 deaths Category:Literary critics Category:Poets from Italy Category:Authors from Italy Category:Journalists from Italy Category:20th-century male writers