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Italian writer and magistrate (1920?1989)
Dante Troisi
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Born
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1920-04-21
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April 21, 1920
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Died
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(1989-01-02)
(aged 68)
Rome
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Nationality
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Occupation(s)
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magistrate
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Dante Troisi
(April 21, 1920 ? January 2, 1989) was an Italian writer and
magistrate
. His writings primarily deal with the
cultural
and
sociological
woes of Italy following
World War II
. Much of his literature draws on issues raised through his work as a magistrate. His most significant work is likely the novel
Diario di un giudice
(Diary of a Judge), written in 1962.
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In 2005, Troisi was
posthumously
awarded the Feronia Literary Prize, an award given to distinguished poets and authors.
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Biography
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Dante Troisi was born in
Tufo
, a small town in the
Province of Avellino
, on April 21, 1920. He attended a secondary school in
Avellino
, and obtained a law degree from the
University of Bari
. Troisi was drafted into the
Italian military
during World War II, and fought during the campaigns in
Libya
and
Tunisia
. In May 1943, Troisi was captured by
Allied forces
. He was sent to a
prison camp
in
Hereford, Texas
and remained there until the end of the war. After the war, Troisi returned to Italy in 1947 and became a judge in
Pavia
. Later on, he was elevated to the position of
magistrate
, first in
Cassino
and then in Rome. Troisi died on January 2, 1989, before the publication of his final work,
La sera del concerto
(The Night of the Concert), after struggling with a serious illness for two years.
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Writings
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Troisi's first work as a writer was the book
L'ulivo nella sabbia
(The Olive Tree in the Sand) and was written in 1951. The story revolves around the relationship between a judge and a man charged with hiding a cachet of weapons. The two were formerly friends while serving together in northern Africa during
World War II
. The plot is primarily a psychological one?contrasting the two men and how they dealt with the war.
Innocente delitto
(Innocent Crime) was written in 1960 and dealt with the problems between the generations of post-war Italy.
Diario di un giudice
(Diary of a Judge), drawing heavily from his experience as a judge, was written in 1962 and deals with the difficulty of the job. Troisi felt that there was a deep mistrust of the
Italian judicial system
. Troisi's writings, while very pessimistic at times, were filled with challenges to morality and philosophy. His style was marked by a concentration on dialogue, and left little room for scenery description or plot development. Although Troisi's style has been compared to that of the existentialist
Albert Camus
, it is more accurate to say that he was a
moralist
, showing his concerns for the social and ideological issues of his time.
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References
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Pallotta, Augustus (1999).
Italian Novelists Since World War II, 1965?1995
. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 196. Detroit: Gale Research.
OCLC
39123972
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"I vincitori delle precedenti edizioni"
[The winners of previous editions].
L'associazione culturale Allegorein
(in Italian). Archived from
the original
on November 9, 2009
. Retrieved
October 18,
2009
.
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