Mario Praz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mario Praz

Italian art collector, art historian, journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1896

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1982

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher, art historian, journalist, literary critic, art collector

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mario Praz KBE (Italian: ['ma?rjo prats]; September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature.
His best-known book, The Romantic Agony (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the erotic and morbid themes that characterized European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries.
See Femme fatale for a reference of one of his chapters.
The book was written and published first in Italian as La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica in 1930, and the most recent edition was published in Firenze: Sansoni, 1996.