Italian poet, of German extraction, born at Athens. He was educated at Naples University and became a lecturer on Italian literature in Rome, till in 1882 he was appointed professor at Turin. He was one of the founders of the Giornale della letteratura italiana, and his publications include valuable prose criticism; but he is best known as a poet. His various volumes of verse—Poesie e novelle (1874), Dopo il tramonto versi (1893), &c.—give him a high place among the recent lyrical writers of his country.
He published in 1911 L’Anglomania e l’influsso inglese in Italia nel secolo XVIII. He died at Turin on the 29th of May 1913. Poesie, a collection of his best poems, appeared in 1915.
See Sartori Treves, Arturo Graf, romanziere e poeta (1904).
