Lodovico Nicola di Giura explained
Lodovico Nicola di Giura |
Birth Date: | 1868 |
Birth Place: | Chiaromonte |
Death Date: | 1947 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Known For: | Italian translation of the Liaozhai zhiyi |
Profession: | Surgeon |
Lodovico Nicola di Giura, (also spelt Ludovico Nicola di Giura) (1868-1947), was an Italian surgeon, sinologist, translator, writer and traveller. He was from Chiaromonte. He was posted as medical officer of the Italian Navy at the Italian embassy in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion, he then worked in Tianjin. By 1913 he was working as a civilian doctor.[1]
Giura produced the first complete translation into Italian of the Liaozhai zhiyi entitled I racconti fantastici di Liao,[2] called in English The Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.[3] [4] [5] [6] He also translated Li Bai's poetry into Italian and wrote an autobiographical novel.
Giura remained in China from 1900 to 1930.[1] He later became the Prefect and Mayor of Chiaromonte from 1931 to 1947.[7]
The Anthropological Archaeological Museum Il Museo Archeologico Antropologico “Lodovico Nicola di Giura” is named for him.[8]
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Notes and References
- Marinelli . M. . 2011 . Finding the Imagined Motherland in China: the Italian experience in Tianjin . Provincial China . 3 . 10.5130/PC.V3I1.2443. 54598736 . free . 10453/19054 . free .
- Lanciotti . L. . 1955 . Review of I racconti fantastici di Liao . Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie . 1 . 142 . 24598138 . 0080-2484.
- Book: Lévy . André . Chan . Tak-hung Leo . One Into Many: Translation and the Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature . 2003 . Rodopi . Amsterdam . 90-420-0815-6 . 83 . https://books.google.com/books?id=o5oPBC2AfgAC&dq=Lodovico+Nicola+di+Giura&pg=PA83 . en . 4. The Liaozhai zhiyi and Honglou meng in French Translation.
- Book: Ming Qing Yanjiu . 1993 . Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto Universitario Orientale . 79 . en.
- Book: Antonelli . Loredana . Tamburello . Adolfo . Oriente, Occidente e dintorni ...: scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello . 2010 . Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale. . Naples . 978-88-95044-66-8 . 69–88 . it . Ludovico Nicola di Giura. Storia di un medico italiano in Cina: gli incarichi pubblici e le passioni letterarie.
- Lanciotti . Lionello . Review of Der Fuchs in Kultur, Religion und Folklore Zentral- und Ostasiens . East and West . 2003 . 53 . 1/4 . 310 . 29757588 . Italian . 0012-8376.
- Web site: 2022-01-17 . An Italian among Chinese Elite: Ludovico Nicola di Giura (1868-1947) . 2022-04-20 . Mobility and Humanities . it-IT.
- Web site: Museo archeoantropologico "Lodovico Nicola di Giura" di Chiaromonte . Basilicata Turistica . 27 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220327154727/https://www.basilicataturistica.it/museo-archeoantropologico-lodovico-nicola-di-giura-di-chiaromonte/ . 27 March 2022 . it-IT.