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

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

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Antonio
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Italy
Place of birth: Ales
Place of death: Rome
Occupation: opinion journalist
Political party: Italian Communist Party
Languages spoken: Sardinian
Religion: atheism
Award: Viareggio Prize
Notable work: Prison Notebooks
Field of work: theatre criticism
Movement: Marxist humanism
Image: Gramsci.png
Number of children: 2
Work location: Palazzo Montecitorio
Political ideology: Marxism

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place of burial: Protestant Cemetery, Rome
Commons category: Antonio Gramsci
date of birth: 1891-01-23
date of death: 1937-04-27
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cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
name in native language: Antonio Gramsci
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writing language: Italian
medical condition: arteriosclerosis
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manner of death: natural causes
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has written for: Avanti!
influenced by: Gaetano Mosca
place of detention: Turi
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derivative work: Neo-Gramscianism

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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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