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{{Short description|Italian critic and writer (1835–1914)}}
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{{Infobox person
| birth_date         = 20 February 1835
| death_date         = 9 November 1914
| name               = Alessandro D'Ancona
| image              = File:Alessandro D'Ancona, ante 1914 - Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 0065 B.jpg
| birth_place        = Pisa, Italy
| occupation         = writer
}}

'''Alessandro D'Ancona''' (20 February 1835{{snd}}9 November 1914) was an Italian critic and writer.

==Life==
He was born at [[Pisa]], of a wealthy [[Jewish]] family, and educated in Florence; at the age of eighteen he published his essay on the life and work of the philosopher [[Tommaso Campanella]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Ancona, Alessandro|volume=1|page=951}}</ref>

In 1855 Ancona went to Turin, nominally to study law, but in reality to act as intermediary between the Tuscan Liberals and [[Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour|Cavour]]; he was an intimate friend of [[Luigi Carlo Farini]] and represented [[Tuscany]] in the [[Società Nazionale]]. On the fall of the Austrian dynasty in Tuscany (27 April 1859), he returned to Florence, where he edited the newly founded newspaper ''[[La Nazione]]''. In 1861 he was appointed professor of [[Italian literature]] at the [[University of Pisa]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1904 became a member of the [[Senate of the Kingdom of Italy]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1930 |title=Ancona, Alessandro |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |edition=14|volume=1|page=892 |language=en}} </ref>

He died in Florence.

==Works==
Among his works the following may be mentioned: ''Opera di Tommaso Campanella'', 2 vols. (Turin, 1854); ''Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV., XV., e XVI.'' (3 vols., Florence, 1872); ''Origini del Teatro in Italia'' (2 vols., Florence, 1877); ''La Poesia popolare italiana'' (Livorno, 1878), besides several volumes of literary essays, editions of the works of [[Dante]] and other early Italian writers, etc.<ref name="EB1911"/>

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