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Giovanni Segantini: biography
Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segatini was born on 15 January 1858 at Arco, in the province of Trento, Italy.
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(He added the “n” to his surname later to match the nickname “Segante” that his classmates at the Accademia di Brera had bestowed on him.) During his childhood he suffered a series of traumas that would contribute to transforming his adult life into a continuous quest for balance, unbridled luxury and solitary work.
His mother, Margherita née De’ Girardi died after a severe illness in 1865 when he was only seven. That April, his father Antonio, a peddler of knickknacks in eternal financial trouble, decided to take the young Giovanni to Milan and leave him in the care of his stepsister, Irene.
She, however, was unable to care for him. In 1870, four years after his father’s death Giovanni was arrested in Milan for vagrancy and sent to the Marchiondi reformatory. After an attempt to escape, he was released early in 1873 thanks