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Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840 - 1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology.

In 1862 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit at Florence, but having married a cousin of the Socialist Bakunin and become interested in his views he resigned his appointment and spent some years in travel. He was reappointed, however, in 1867; and in 1891 he was transferred to the University of Rome La Sapienza. He became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet.

He founded the (1862), the (1867), the and (1869), the (1876) and the (1883), and in 1887 became director of the . In 1878 he started the .

His Oriental and mythological works include the (1867), the (1868), a famous work on zoological mythology (1872), and another on plant mythology (1878). He also edited the encyclopaedic (1882-1885). His work in verse includes the dramas , , , , , etc.

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