Alexandru Marcu

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Alexandru Marcu (born December 31, 1894 in Suceava ; † February 27, 1955 in Văcăreşti prison in Bucharest ) was a Romanian Romance scholar , Italianist, Romanianist , comparator and translator.

life and work

Marcu went to school in Craiova and studied at the University of Bucharest with Ramiro Ortiz , whom he succeeded in 1933 on his chair for Italian studies. He went into politics and became Undersecretary of State in the Propaganda Ministry of the Ion Antonescu government . After the war he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the communists. He died in custody.

Marcu was a Corresponding Member (1940) of the Romanian Academy .

Works

  • Romanticii Italieni şi Românii , Bucharest 1924
  • La Spagne ed il Portogallo nella visione dei romantici italiani, in: Ephemeris dacoramana. Annuario della Scuola romena di Roma , 2, 1924, pp. 66-222
  • V. Alecsandri şi Italia , Bucharest 1927 (Italian: V. Alecsandri e l'Italia. Contributo alla storia dei rapporti culturali tra l'Italia e la Rumenia nell'Ottocento , Rome 1929)
  • (Translator) Giovanni Papini , Viața lui Isus , Bucharest 1928, Chișinău 1991 (Original text: Storia di Cristo , 1921)
  • Romantismul italian , Bucharest 1929
  • Dictionar roman-italian , Bucharest 1929 (624 pages)
  • Conspiratori şi conspiraţii in epoka renaşterii politice a României 1848-1877 , Bucharest 1930
  • (Translator) Dante Alighieri, Infernul. Purgatoriul. Paradisul , 3 vols., Craiova 1932–1934 (prose translation)
  • Simion Bărnuțiu, Al. Papiu Ilarian și Iosif Hodoș la studii în Italia cu documente inedite , Bucharest 1935
  • Torquato Tasso în romantica românească , I, Bucharest 1937
  • Figuri femenine din renaștere , Bucharest 1939
  • (Ed.) Critica italiană dela Vico la Croce. Antologia alcatuita , Bucharest 1941 (anthology of Italian literary criticism from Vico to Croce)
  • Aspecte Italiene (Schite, Studii, Amintiri) , Bucharest 1942
  • Valoarea artei in Renaştere , Bucharest 1942, 1982 (Italian: Il valore dell'arte nel Rinascimento , Florence 1943)

literature

  • Veronica Turcuş, Alexandru Marcu (1894-1955). Viaţa şi opera , ed. by G. Matei Albastru, Bucharest 2004 (Italian: Alexandru Marcu. Il destino di un italianista romeno , Cluj-Napoca 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Marcu, Alexandru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romanist, Italianist, Romanianist, comparativeist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Suceava
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1955
Place of death Bucharest