Lodovico Nicola di Giura
Born1868
Chiaromonte
Died1947
NationalityItalian
Known forItalian translation of the Liaozhai zhiyi
Medical career
ProfessionSurgeon

Lodovico Nicola di Giura, (also spelt Ludovico Nicola di Giura) (1868-1947), was an Italian surgeon sinologist, translator, writer and traveller.[1] He was from Chiaromonte. He was posted as medical officer of the Italian Navy at the Italian embassy in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion, he then worked in Tianjin. By 1913 he was working as a civilian doctor.[2]

He produced the first complete translation into Italian of the Liaozhai zhiyi entitled I racconti fantastici di Liao,[3] called in English The Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.[4][5][6][7] He also translated Li Bai's poetry into Italian and wrote an autobiographical novel. He remained in China from 1900 to 1930.[2]

He later became the Prefect and Mayor of Chiaromonte from 1931 to 1947.[1]

The Anthropological Archaeological Museum Il Museo Archeologico Antropologico “Lodovico Nicola di Giura” is named for him.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "An Italian among Chinese Elite: Ludovico Nicola di Giura (1868-1947)". Mobility and Humanities (in Italian). 2022-01-17. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. 1 2 Marinelli, M. (2011). "Finding the Imagined Motherland in China: the Italian experience in Tianjin". Provincial China. 3. doi:10.5130/PC.V3I1.2443. hdl:10453/19054. S2CID 54598736.
  3. ↑ Lanciotti, L. (1955). "Review of I racconti fantastici di Liao". Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie. 1: 142. ISSN 0080-2484. JSTOR 24598138.
  4. ↑ Lévy, André (2003). "4. The Liaozhai zhiyi and Honglou meng in French Translation". In Chan, Tak-hung Leo (ed.). One Into Many: Translation and the Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 83. ISBN 90-420-0815-6.
  5. ↑ Ming Qing Yanjiu. Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto Universitario Orientale. 1993. p. 79.
  6. ↑ Antonelli, Loredana (2010). "Ludovico Nicola di Giura. Storia di un medico italiano in Cina: gli incarichi pubblici e le passioni letterarie". In Tamburello, Adolfo (ed.). Oriente, Occidente e dintorni ...: scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello (PDF) (in Italian). Naples: Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale. pp. 69–88. ISBN 978-88-95044-66-8.
  7. ↑ Lanciotti, Lionello (2003). "Review of Der Fuchs in Kultur, Religion und Folklore Zentral- und Ostasiens". East and West (in Italian). 53 (1/4): 310. ISSN 0012-8376. JSTOR 29757588.
  8. ↑ "Museo archeoantropologico "Lodovico Nicola di Giura" di Chiaromonte". Basilicata Turistica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.


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