Arturo Graf

Arturo, who spoke both Greek and Italian, travelled extensively through Italy during his youth.

Circa 1855, after the death of his father, the family lived with his maternal uncle for a time in Braila, Romania.

He continued to travel through Italy, graduating from Liceo in 1867 and enrolling in University to study law.

He was one of the founders of the Giornale della letteratura italiana, and his publications include valuable prose criticism.

His various volumes of verse—Poesie e novelle (1874), Dopo il tramonto, versi (1893), Le Danaidi (1897), Morgana (1901), Poemetti drammatici (1904), and Le rime della selva (1905) —give him a high place among the recent lyrical writers of his country.