Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840 - 1913) was an Italian writer, born in Turin and graduated philology at Berlin.
In 1862 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit at the University of Florence, but having married a cousin of Bakunin, gradually he became interested in socialist ideas, so he rejected the charge and spent several years traveling. He was readmitted to the same position in 1867, and transferred to the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1891 He acquired some renown as orientalist, as a poet and publicist. He founded the magazine "Italia Letteraria" (1862), the "orientale Rivista" (1867), "Italian Civittà", "European Rivista" (1869), "Italian Bolletino degli studii orientali" (1876), the "Revie internationale "(1883), and in 1887 was appointed director of the" Giornale della società asiatica ". In 1878 he began writing his "Biographical Dictionary of contemporary writers."
Among his works on Eastern mythology and tell the "Piccola indiana Encyclopedia" (1867), the "Fonti vediche" (1868), a celebrated treatise on animal mythology published in 1872 and another plant Mythology (1878). He also published an encyclopedic "Storia universale della letteratura" (1882-1885). His work as a poet focuses on the dramas "Gala", "Romolo", "Nala", "Don Rodrigo" and "Savitri", among others.