Alberto Tenenti

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Alberto Tenenti (born June 5, 1924 in Viareggio ; † November 11, 2002 in Paris ) was one of the most important Italian and French historians . He dealt with the history of death as early as the early 1950s, then with the history of Italian cities such as Florence or Venice in order to create several syntheses. He left his colleague Ruggiero Romano , who, like him, moved to Paris to the Annales School , specializing in economic history .

life and work

Alberto Tenenti attended the Liceo "G. Carducci" in Viareggio. His interests were history and philosophy , literature and art . In 1942 he began his studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , in the academic year 1945/46 he finished his studies at the Università di Pisa with a dissertation on Diderot with Cesare Luporini . In 1947 he went to Paris to enlighten and deepen his work on Diderot. Here, under the influence of Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel , he finally concentrated on the historical sciences.

When he returned to Italy in 1953, he initially worked as an archivist in Venice and Brescia . But the work of his teachers in Paris and the Annales School drew Tenenti to Paris in 1957. There he met Ruggiero Romano who had a similar experience. Tenenti was named chef de travaux in the Sciences Économiques et Sociales section of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ; In 1965 he became its director. From 1966/67 he held a course on the Histoire Sociale des Cultures Européennes every year . Eventually he took French citizenship. In Italy he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1980 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . He was married to a historian.

As early as 1957 he emerged with a thesis on thanatology under the title Il senso della morte e l'amore della vita nel Rinascimento . Among his outstanding works are L'Italia del Quattrocento (Italy in the 15th century), Dalle rivolte alle rivoluzioni , Firenze dal Comune a Lorenzo il Magnifico , La vita e la morte attraverso l'arte del XV Secolo , Venezia e il senso del mare and Venezia ei pirati . In 1967 his study of the pirates appeared in English under the title Piracy and the Decline of Venice, 1580-1615 . Finally in 1990 he brought out a summary work with L'età moderna: XVI-XVIII secolo at Il Mulino. Tenenti became known in Germany in 1967 as part of the Fischer Weltgeschichte with the title of the volume The Foundation of the Modern World: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation . From 1992 he published the Storia di Venezia together with Ugo Tucci .

Tenenti wrote more than 400 works in total, but avoided making too much of a fuss about himself as much as possible. Theatrics, according to Jacques LeGoff , was alien to him.

Works (selection)

  • Ars moriendi. Quelques notes on the problem of la mort à la fin du XVe siècle , in: Annales. Èconomie, Société, Culture VI (1951) 433-446.
  • La vie et la mort à travers l'art du XVe siècle , Cahiers des Annales, 8, Armand Colin, Paris 1952.
  • Il senso delia morte e l'amore della vita nel Rinascimento (Francia e Italia) , Einaudi, Turin 1957.
  • Naufrages, corsaires et assurances maritimes a Venise (1592-1609) , 1959.
  • with Cristoforo da Canal: La marine vénitienne avant Lépante , Paris 1962.
  • with Ruggiero Romano : The foundation of the modern world. Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation , Fischer Weltgeschichte Vol. 12, Frankfurt a. M. 1967 (Italian edition: Alle origini del mondo moderno, 1350-1550 , Feltrinelli, 1967).
  • L'età moderna: XVI-XVIII secolo , Il Mulino, 1990.
  • Sovranitä e ragion di stato nell'Italia del secondo Cinquecento , in: Studi Veneziani nuova serie 39 (2000) 97–112.

literature

  • Pierroberto Scaramella: Bibliografia di Alberto Tenenti (1951-2003) , in: Studi Storici 44,2 (2003) 347-371.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Fellows: Alberto Tenenti. British Academy, accessed August 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ Alberto Tenenti: Il senso della morte e l'amore della vita nel Rinascimento (Francia e Italia) , reprinted by Einaudi, 1977.
personal data
SURNAME Tenenti, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-French historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Viareggio
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2002
Place of death Paris