GUBERNATIS

gubernatis, angelo de, count (1840- ), italian man of letters, was born at turin and educated there and at berlin, where he studied philology. in 1862 he was appointed professor of sanskrit at florence, but having married a cousin of the socialist bakunin and become interested in his views he resigned his appointment and spent some years in travel. he was reappointed, however, in 1867; and in 1891 he was transferred to the university of rome. he became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet. he founded the _italia letteraria_ (1862), the _rivista orientale_ (1867), the _civitta italiana_ and _rivista europea_ (1869), the _bollettino italiano degli studii orientali_ (1876) and the _revue internationale_ (1883), and in 1887 became director of the _giornale della societa asiatica_. in 1878 he started the _dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei_. his oriental and mythological works include the _piccola enciclopedia indiana_ (1867), the _fonti vediche_ (1868), a famous work on zoological mythology (1872), and another on plant mythology (1878). he also edited the encyclopaedic _storia universale della letteratura_ (1882-1885). his work in verse includes the dramas _cato_, _romolo_, _il re nala_, _don rodrigo_, _savitri_, &c.