21 Facts About Giorgio Fano

Giorgio Fano was an Italian philosopher and linguist.

Giorgio Fano belonged to the school of Italian neo-idealist thinkers, among a group of artists and writers who made Trieste of the early Twentieth Century a notable center of intellectual activity.

Giorgio Fano stressed the major importance of the simplest and most basic aspects of the life of mind, inspired by reflections of Gianbattista Vico.

Giorgio Fano was born in Trieste on April 17,1885.

Giorgio Fano's father Guglielmo was a well-known physician, his mother Amalia Sanguinetti, who for many years was seriously ill, died when he was still a child.

Giorgio Fano attended Austrian schools of the time, but with little benefit.

At one point Giorgio Fano collects, and conceals in his closed fist, a piece of wood.

Saba and Giorgio Fano together bought the Ancient and Modern Library They did not regard it in the same way, while Saba was a lover of ancient books, Giorgio Fano had a more indifferent outlook.

Giorgio Fano was not a person to diligently take on many "boring" tasks, but rather cheerfully consigned them to his companions.

Since both wanted to remain owners, Giorgio Fano proposed a decision with a coin toss; Giorgio Fano won.

Giorgio Fano came away from Trieste, then he brought his family to Florence, and the like.

Giorgio Fano married a second time with Anna Curiel; together they had a son named Guido.

Giorgio Fano did not espouse egalitarian ideals, which appeared to him as utopian and, in any case undesirable, possibly leading to a Communist society.

Giorgio Fano became a courageous and unconditional antifascist, who lost no opportunity to openly express his opinions.

Professor of Philosophy at various high schools in Trieste since 1925, Giorgio Fano aspired to university teaching, which encountered many obstacles imposed by the authorities.

Giorgio Fano did not attend university classes in Padua, probably in part, because he was already married and had to provide for his family.

Giorgio Fano was scholar of Croce, whom he had known since 1912; he published various articles on Croce's philosophy.

Giorgio Fano was quite fortunate that even a most superficial investigation would have been enough to convoy him with his family to the extermination camps.

However Giorgio Fano did not ever bother to obtain any official appointment to an academic position, so that, when his academic career ended, he was not entitled to receive even a minimum pension.

Giorgio Fano contributed some significant original insights on the subject, as elaborated in his Essay on the Origins of Language; with a Critical History of the Glottogonic Doctrines.

Giorgio Fano died in Siena on September 20,1963, while presiding over a meeting of the Board of Examiners.