Agostino Sottili

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Agostino Sottili (born August 28, 1939 in Monticelli d'Ongina , † September 14, 2004 in Turin ) was an Italian philologist and Romance scholar, specializing in 15th century humanism ( Quattrocento ) and Petrarch .

Agostino Sottili came from a family deeply rooted in Catholicism. Since 1958 he studied at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, the subjects Classical Philology and Romance Studies. His academic teacher Giuseppe Billanovich inspired him to study humanism. On the advice of Billanovich, he went to Cologne in 1963. There he spent twelve years. He started a family in Cologne. At first he worked as a lecturer for Italian and became secretary at the Petrarch Institute. He received his doctorate in Cologne in November 1968. In 1970 he completed his habilitation with Fritz Schalk at the University of Cologne in Classical Philology. In 1971 he became an adjunct professor for Italian philology in Cologne and in 1975 professor for medieval and humanistic philology at the University of Turin . In 1994 he became Professor of Latin Philology at the Università Cattolica di Milano and took over the chair of his teacher Billanovich. He died in Turin in September 2004 after heart surgery.

He dealt intensively with manuscripts on Petrarch in German libraries (subject of his dissertation) and wrote monographs on them. He also dealt with the German-Italian exchange of scholars in the Quattrocento and the history of the universities of Pavia, Padua and Ferrara.

Sottili submitted over 350 publications. Sottili published in both German and Italian, supported the scientific exchange in his field between Italy and Germany through reviews (including in Romance Research and Aevum (Milan)) and was a regular participant in the Wolfenbüttel working group for Renaissance research . Sottili was a long-time member of the Willibald Pirckheimer Society .

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in Fabio Forner, Carla Maria Monti, Paul Gerhard Schmidt (eds.): Margarita amicorum. Studi di cultura europea per Agostino Sottili (= Bibliotheca erudita. Studi e documenti di storia e filologia. 26). Vol. 1, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-343-1059-4 , pp. XXVII-LXX.

Monographs

  • Scritti petrarcheschi (= Studi sul Petrarca. 44). A cura di Fabio Della Schiava, Angelo de Patto, Carla Maria Monti. Editrice Antenore, Rome et al. 2015, ISBN 978-88-8455-693-6 .
  • Humanism and University Attendance. The effect of Italian universities on the Studia Humanitatis north of the Alps. = Renaissance humanism and university studies. Italian universities and their influence on the Studia Humanitatis in Northern Europe (= Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 26). Brill, Leiden et al. 2006, ISBN 90-04-15334-9 .
  • Università e cultura. Studi sui rapporti italo-tedeschi nell'età dell'Umanesimo (= Bibliotheca eruditorum. 5). Keip, Goldbach 1993, ISBN 3-8051-0204-6 .
  • I codici del Petrarca nella Germania occidentale. In: Italia medioevale e umanistica. Vol. 10, 1967, ISSN  0391-7495 , pp. 412-491; Vol. 11, 1968, pp. 346-448; Vol. 12, 1969, pp. 336-476; 13, 1970, pp. 281-467; Vol. 14, 1971, pp. 314-402; Vol. 15, 1972, pp. 362-423; Vol. 18, 1975, pp. 1-72; Vol. 19, 1976, pp. 430-492; Vol. 20, 1977, pp. 414-949 (register); (The reprints from Volume 10, 1967, and Volume 11, 1968, together form: Cologne, University, Dissertation, from September 30, 1969).
  • Studenti tedeschi e umanesimo italiano nell 'università di Padova durante il Quattrocento. Volume 1: Pietro Del Monte nella societa accademica padovana (1430–1433) (= Contributi alla storia dell'Università di Padova. 7, ZDB -ID 1112182-8 ). Antenore, Padua 1971.

Editorships

  • Lauree pavesi nella seconda metà del '400 (= Fonti e studi per la storia dell'Università di Pavia. 25, 29). Cisalpino, Bologna et al. 1995-1998;
  • Documenti per la storia dell'Università di Pavia nella seconda metà del '400 (= Fonti e studi per la storia dell'Università di Pavia. 21, 38). 2 volumes. Cisalpino, Bologna 1994-2002;

literature

  • Fabio Forner, Carla Maria Monti, Paul Gerhard Schmidt (eds.): Margarita amicorum. Studi di cultura europea per Agostino Sottili (= Bibliotheca eruditorum. 26). 2 volumes. V & P, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-343-1059-4 (with list of publications).
  • Franz Fuchs : Obituary for Agostino Sottili (1939-2004). In: Pirckheimer yearbook. Vol. 21, 2006, pp. 171-172.
  • Paul Gerhard Schmidt : In memoriam. Agostino Sottili (August 28, 1939– September 14, 2004). In: New Latin Yearbook . Vol. 7, 2005, pp. 5-7.

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personal data
SURNAME Sottili, Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Monticelli d'Ongina
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2004
Place of death Turin