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FRANCESCO DE SANCTIS (1817-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 129 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO DE See also:SANCTIS (1817-1883)  , See also:Italian publicist, was See also:born at Morra Irpino, and educated at the See also:institute of the Marchese Basilio Puoti . Becoming a teacher in a private school of his own, he made a name as a profound student of literature; and after the troubles of the '48, when he held See also:office under the revolutionary See also:government and was imprisoned for three years at See also:Naples, his reputation as a lecturer on See also:Dante at See also:Turin brought him the See also:appointment of See also:professor at See also:Zurich in 1856 . He returned to Naples as See also:minister of public instruction in 186o, and filled the same See also:post under the Italian See also:monarchy in 1861, 1878 and 1879, having in 1861 become a See also:deputy in the Italian chamber . In 1871 he became professor at Naples University . As a See also:literary critic, De See also:Sanctis took a very high See also:place, notably with his See also:Scoria della letteratura italiana (2nd ed., 1873) and with his See also:critical studies, published in several volumes, some of them since his See also:death at Naples in 1883 .

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