Alessandro Lami

Alessandro Lami (born January 27, 1949 in Rosignano Marittimo , † March 8, 2015 in Livorno ) was an Italian classical philologist .

Alessandro Lami

Life

Lami grew up as the son of the worker Pietro Lami and his wife Rina Colombini in Castiglioncello and acquired a solid knowledge of classical Greek at the humanistic high school "Niccolini Guerazzi" in Livorno . There he met his wife Elisabetta Piccioni. He studied first at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa , then at the University of Pisa with Vincenzo Di Benedetto . There he also taught Greek, first as a ricercatore , then as an associato . He researched until shortly before his death and was significantly involved in the medical history journal Galenos , which is published by his friend and colleague Ivan Garofalo . He died on the morning of March 8, 2015 at the age of 66 in the presence of his wife. His ashes were buried in the sea near Castiglioncello.

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His main areas of research were the history of Greek philosophy and medicine , especially the Corpus Hippocraticum and Galen . His edition, with commentary and translation, of the Galenic writing De opinionibus propriis (also known as De propriis placitis ) is considered to be the best currently available.

Bibliography (selection)

with Vincenzo Di Benedetto : Filologia e marxismo. Contro le mistificazioni , Naples 1981 - ISBN 88-207-1005-6 .
I presocratici: testimonianze e frammenti da Talete a Empedocle , Milan 1991 - ISBN 978-8817167628
L'ultima prova dell'immortalità dell'anima nel Fedone , in “Filologia Antica e Moderna” volume 10 (1996), 101-112.
introduction, premessa al testo e note di Platone. Fedone , Milan 1996 (and reprints).
[Ippocrate], Affezioni internal 1 e dintorni, in “Filologia Antica e Moderna” volume 11 (1996), 89-100.
Tre note a due scritti ippocratici (Regime ed Affezioni internal), in “Filologia Antica e Moderna” volume 12 (1997), 79-95.
[Ippocrate], Reg. 2, 54, 8, in “Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica” 126, (1998), 41-46.
Ed .: Aspetti della terapia nel Corpus Hippocraticum, atti del IX Colloque International Hippocratique (Pisa 25-29 September 1996), with Ivan Garofalo, Daniela Manetti and Amneris Roselli, Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere "La Colombaria", vol. 183, Florence 1999.
Per il ricupero della esatta lezione in Tucidide IV 15, 1, in “Studi Classici e Orientali” 67 (1999), 1-42.
Conoscenza mercantile e conoscenza empirica di Odisseo , in “Filologia Antica e Moderna” issue 19 (2000), 19-34.
"Apports de la Collection Hippocratique à la connaissance du lexique grec", Lalies, 21 (2001), 79 ff.
"L'inizio di Affezioni internal", Filologia Antica e Moderna, 12 (2002), 5-22.
"Areteo ei delicati di stomaco (IV 6, 2)", Filologia Antica e Moderna, 13 (2003), 5-10.
"Malattie e nomi di malattie nella Collezione ippocratica", in: G. Fornaciari (ed.), La medicina greco-romana. Dodici conferenze, Pisa 2002, 71-87.
Il giuramento e altri testi di medicina greca / Ippocrate , Milan 2005
with Ivan Garofalo and Amneris Roselli (eds.), Sulla tradizione indiretta dei testi medici greci: Atti del II Seminario Internazionale di Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, 19-20 September 2008. Biblioteca di "Galenos" 2. Pisa / Rome 2009, ISBN 9788862271387
with Ivan Garofalo, Galeno. L'anima e il dolore. De indolentia. De propriis placitis, Milan 2012 - ISBN 978-88-17-05498-0

Individual evidence

↑ Pietro Rosa, Rev. Ivan Garofalo / Alessandro Lami, Galeno, L'anima e il dolore, Milan 2012, in: Eikasmos 25 (2014), 494-503 (by Ivan Garofalo is the edition of the other treatise in this volume).

personal data
SURNAME	Lami, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rosignano Marittimo
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 2015
Place of death	Livorno

[1] Pietro Rosa, Rev. Ivan Garofalo / Alessandro Lami, Galeno, L'anima e il dolore, Milan 2012, in: Eikasmos 25 (2014), 494-503 (by Ivan Garofalo is the edition of the other treatise in this volume).