Giorgio Bassani

Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916 in Bologna, Italy, and grew up in Ferrara, the city that would become the setting for virtually all of his fiction. From a prominent Jewish family, he experienced firsthand the impact of Mussolini's 1938 racial laws and was active in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II. After the war, he became an influential literary editor in Rome, playing a crucial role in the publication of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard, which he championed when others had rejected it. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.