Count Angelo De Gubernatis (7 April 1840 – 26 February 1913[1]), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and in Berlin, where he studied philology.

Between 1881 and 1884 he conceived and directed a magazine for young women titled Cordelia, and in the first issue, he invited readers to send in something to be published.

One very early contributor, who later became the magazine's director, was Maria Majocchi who, at that time, preferred the pseudonym Margheritina di Cento and later became widely known as Jolanda.

His work in verse includes the dramas Gala, Romolo, Il re Nala, Don Rodrigo, Savitri, etc.

[6] In later years he published a series of lectures on Italian poetry (1907), and a Dictionnaire internationale des écrivains du monde latin (1905–6).