Giulio Angioni


Giulio Angioni was an Italian writer and anthropologist.

Biography

Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University of Oxford. He is the author of about twenty books of fiction and a dozen volumes of essays in anthropology.
In his anthropological essays, Angioni places the variety of forms of the human life in a dimension of maximum amplitude of time and space, starting from the anthropopoietic value of doing, saying, thinking and feeling as interrelated dimensions of human 'nature', which here is understood as characterized by culture, i. e. the human ability of continuous learning. In particular Angioni criticizes two western clichés: the superiority of speech as a solely human feature, and the separateness of the aesthetic dimension from the rest of life.
Best known as a writer, Angioni is considered along with Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, to have been one of the initiators of a so-called Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena, which followed the works of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, :it:Giuseppe Dessì|Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, :it:Salvatore Satta|Salvatore Satta.
The best novels of Angioni are considered to be :it:Le fiamme di Toledo|Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira, Doppio cielo, L'oro di Fraus. His poetic works in Sardinian language and Italian came later in his career.

Literary works