Luigi Alberti
Luigi Alberti (1822–1898) was a Florence-born journalist, writer and playwright who mainly wrote comedies. From 1863 to 1866 he was the editor of Firenze magazine. He openly debated Olindo Guerrini and Giosuè Carducci, who supported the Verismo movement, a realistic literary style. In his book Praefatio e Polemica novissima he argued that Guerrinians and Carduccians polluted the minds of young people with Verismo, which he saw as glorifying ugly, mean, and vulgar things.
His plays include La ragazza di cervello sottile (1870), Capitano Anacleto Bruni (1867), Pietro o la gente nuova (1868), and Asmodeo (1886). The Luigi Alberti fund at the National Central Library in Florence holds about one hundred items, such as letters, telegrams, postcards, materials related to his work as a playwright, notes, printed material, and manuscripts of plays by Alberti and his contemporaries.
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