ANCONA, ALESSANDRO 0835–I914), Italian man of letters, was born at Pisa on Feb. 20 1835 and died at Florence on Nov. 8 1914. He acted as intermediary between Cavour and the Tuscan Liberals in 1855, and represented Tuscany in the Societa Nazionale. In 1861 he was appointed professor of Italian literature at Pisa, and was made a senator in 1904.
His chief works are: Opera di Tommaso Campanella (Turin, 1854) Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV., XV., e XVI. (Florence, 1872) ; Origini del Teatro in Italia (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.