Antonio Gramsci

Also known as Antonio Francesco Gramsci

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)

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Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher, politician, journalist, and writer. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party and was educated at the University of Turin. His fields of work included philosophy, politics, opinion journalism, and literature. He wrote in Italian and also spoke Sardinian.

Gramsci was born in Ales in 1891 and died in Rome in 1937 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He is buried at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. His notable works include *Lettere dal carcere*, *Soviets in Italy*, and *Antologia popolare degli scritti e delle lettere*. He received the Viareggio Prize.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 22 Jan 1891
Died: 27 Apr 1937
Works: 338

Top works

Lettere dal carcere
Antonio Gramsci
Cultura y literatura
Soviets in Italy
Antologia popolare degli scritti e delle lettere

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Film & TV

Writing

Known for

L'Unità. Storia di un archivio — Archive Footage2025
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: New Zealand
Active from: 1891
Active to: 1937

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 33
Total plays: 62

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,547x

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Quotes

“To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.”
“History teaches, but it has no pupils.”
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
“La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.”
“My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.”
“All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( UK: /ˈɡræmʃi/ GRAM-shee, US: /ˈɡrɑːmʃi/ GRAHM-shee; Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo franˈtʃesko ˈɡramʃi] ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937.

During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources—not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Hegel, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.

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