Alberto Limentani

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Alberto Limentani (born January 17, 1935 in Trieste , † April 26, 1986 in Padua ) was an Italian Medievalist , Romance scholar and director of the Institute for Neo-Latin Philology in Padua.

life and work

Limentani put his Laurea on Teseida of Giovanni Boccaccio in 1957 in Trieste from a work of the 14th century whose Edition Limentani presented 1964th He then specialized in French and Spanish, Provencal and Franco-Venetian as a Romance philologist . In addition to medieval works, he was also interested in contemporary literature. In 1962 Alberto Moravia tra esistenta e realtà was published . From 1963 he was a freelance lecturer, in 1968 he was given a chair in Romance Philology and worked at the Universities of Padua , Cagliari and Venice , before teaching as a visiting professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada . During this time the critical edition of the French novel Palamedes was published , followed in 1965 by the edition of the Provencal story Palamenca . Then he dealt with the interaction between French and Venetian. In 1972 he brought out the critical edition of the Estoires de Venise des Martino da Canale , a historiographical work of the 13th century.

In 1974 Limentani returned to Padua, where he taught until 1986. In 1991 the commemorative publication Studi medievali e romanzi in memoria di Alberto Limentani was published by Marino Berengo , Lorenzo Braccesi, G. Capovilla, M. Ciceri, G. Cinque and Franca Di Ninni.

Publications (selection)

  • Alberto Limentani (ed.): Martin da Canal, Les estoires de Venise: cronaca veneziana in lingua francese dalle origini al 1275 , Olschki, Florence 1972.

literature

  • Rosanna Brusegan: Alberto Limentani (1935-1986) , in: Cahiers de Civilization Médiévale. 29 (1986) 401 f. ( Digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Alberto Limentani (ed.): Giovanni Boccaccio: Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia , Mondadori, Bologna 1964.
  2. ^ Alberto Limentani: Dal Roman de Palamédes ai Cantari di Febus-el-Forte , Commissione per i testi di lingua, Bologna 1962.
  3. ↑ Alberto Limentani (ed.): Martin da Canal, Les estoires de Venise: cronaca veneziana in lingua francese dalle origini al 1275 , Olschki, Florence 1972.

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personal data
SURNAME Limentani, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1986
Place of death Padua