Riccardo Forster

Riccardo Forster (1869–1939) was a Dalmatian Italian poet, journalist and critic.[1][2][3]

Riccardo Forster
Born1869 (1869)
Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (today Zadar, Croatia)
Died1939 (aged 69–70)
Naples, Kingdom of Italy

Biography

As a young man, Forster was an exponent of the Julian-Dalmatian irredentists,[2] and for this reason persecuted by the Austrians. He moved to Naples with the help of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Edoardo Scarfoglio. He began to collaborate with Il Mattino as a theater critic.[4]

He founded and directed the cultural magazine, Flegrea, from 1899 to 1901. From the beginning, he sided with fascism,[2][4] and in 1925 at the behest of Benito Mussolini, became the director of the newspaper. Forster held this position until 1928.[4]

In 1905 he published a book of poems: La fiorita, consisting of sonnets with a neo-romantic and late-scapigliato style. He also wrote a one-act drama, Revelations, and short novellas inspired by D'Annunzio that were published in the magazines of the day.[4]

References
  1. de Benvenuti, Angelo (1953). Storia di Zara dal 1797 al 1918 Volume 2. Fratelli Bocca. p. 374.
  2. D'Ambrosio, Matteo (1990). Nuove verità crudeli origini e primi sviluppi del futurismo a Napoli. A. Guida. p. 3. ISBN 978-88-7188-096-9.
  3. Gianvito Resta, ed. (2002). Pirandello e Napoli atti del Convegno di Napoli, 29 novembre-2 dicembre 2000. Salerno. p. 437. ISBN 978-88-8402-374-2.
  4. "FORSTER, Riccardo". Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 25 March 2021.

Sources
  • Francesco Bruno, Dentro Napoli, Alfredo Guida Editori, Napoli, 2004 ISBN 88-7188-807-3
  • Matteo D'Ambrosio, Nuove verità crudeli: origini e primi sviluppi del futurismo a Napoli, Alfredo Guida Editori, Napoli, 1990
  • Necrol. La morte di R. F. In silenzio (articoli di L.A. Procida e A. Vesce), in Il Mattino, 20 dic. 1938;
  • I. Tacconi, R. F., in Riv. dalmatica, XIX (1938), 4, p. 54; T. Rovito, Diz. dei letterati e giornalisti ital. contemporanei, Napoli 1907, p. 104;
  • F. Barbagallo, Il Mattino degli Scarfoglio, Milano 1979, pp. 70, 115, 208, 210;
  • G. Infusino, La storia del Mattino, Napoli 1982, pp. 113, 167, 179, 291;
  • E. Giammattei, D'Annunzio giornalista a Napoli. I segni del contesto, in D'Annunzio giornalista. Atti del V Convegno internazionale di studi dannunziani, Pescara 1983, pp. 37–39;
  • R. Gisotti, La nascita della terza pagina. Letterati e giornalismo 1860–1914, Lecce 1986, p. 53.
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