Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic, Germanist, poet, playwright and academic naturalized American. Biography. Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, near Palermo, in Sicily. During the academic year 1899–1900, under pressure from his father who wanted him a lawyer, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Palermo. In 1900, he moved to Florence where, at the Institute of Higher Studies, he follows the courses of Girolamo Vitelli, Pio Rajna, Pasquale Villari, Achille Coen and Guido Mazzoni.
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