22 Facts About Ugo Ojetti

Ugo Ojetti was an Italian journalist-commentator and author.

Ugo Ojetti wrote prolifically on a wide range of topics.

Ugo Ojetti's output includes short stories and at least seven novels.

Raffaello Ugo Ojetti contributed commentaries and criticism on architecture and other arts based topics.

Ugo Ojetti's mother, born Veronica Carosi, came originally from Spoleto, and probably died while he was still a teenager.

Ugo Ojetti attended the venerable "Collegio Sant'Ignazio" in Rome and then moved on to the city's "Sapienza University" from where, in 1892, he emerged with a degree in Jurisprudence.

Ugo Ojetti already faced competing career options and instead launched himself as a political journalist-commentator.

Ugo Ojetti himself took the opportunity to present a youthfully idealistic vision of an internationalist literary spirit, unencumbered by the cultural patriotism of Mazzini or Garibaldi and the Risorgimento which, nearly half a century after unification, still provided a rich context for much contemporary thought and writing in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century.

The conference, and Ugo Ojetti's ideas presented at it, triggered much comment and not a little discussion among the intellectual classes in Italy.

Ugo Ojetti wrote a couple of stage plays, but these failed to resonate with theatre audiences.

On 25 October 1905 Ugo Ojetti became engaged to Fernanda Gobba.

Ugo Ojetti would go on to describe himself as Roman by birth and by cultural inheritance, but Florentine by choice.

Ugo Ojetti had denounced German bombing of Reims and indeed teamed up with Gabriele D'Annunzio during the early months of 1915 to visit Reims and inspect the situation by the battlefields for himself.

Ugo Ojetti's best remembered task in this role was to compose a short bilingual manifesto addressed to the citizens of Vienna.

Nevertheless, by 1920 Ugo Ojetti was able to focus again in his work as a commentator-journalist concentrating primarily on the arts.

Ugo Ojetti was able to follow through on his ambitions for the magazine, not leastly, because he wrote much of it himself.

The number and diversity of the distinguished contributors reflected Ugo Ojetti's underlying conviction that the value of art is enhanced by the way in which it offers visible testimony to history and of civilization more effectively than any other body of sources.

In 1929 Ugo Ojetti launched another review magazine, this time produced closer to home, in Florence.

In 1925 Ugo Ojetti was one of those who added his signature to Giovanni Gentile's so-called Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals, indicating a wish to remain a member of Italy's literary establishment under the new regime.

Between 1925 and 1933 Ugo Ojetti served as a member of the Executive Board for the newly inaugurated Enciclopedia Italiana, of which the initial tranche of volumes was published progressively between 1929 and 1936, taking a vital role till 1929 as coordinator of the compendium's arts section.

Towards the end of his career Ugo Ojetti, who celebrated his seventieth birthday in 1941, became peripherally involved in the world of cinema.

Ugo Ojetti's screenplay provided a basis for the successful 1941 film directed by Mario Camerini.