Alfredo Panzini

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Alfredo Panzini (born December 31, 1863 in Senigallia , † April 10, 1939 in Rome ) was an Italian writer, historian, Italianist and lexicographer.

life and work

Panzini grew up in Rimini (which he considered his hometown), as well as in Venice . He studied from 1882 to 1886 in Bologna with Giosuè Carducci and Francesco Acri and received his doctorate with the thesis Saggio critico su la poesia maccheronica (Castellamare di Stabia 1887). From 1886 to 1924 he was a high school teacher in Castellammare di Stabia , Imola , Milan (1888-1917) and Rome (1918-1924).

Panzini was a famous and widely sold prose writer for 30 years until his death. Then he fell victim to Marxist criticism and was forgotten. Today he is considered the author of the second series ("Minori").

His very personal dictionary of neologisms (new words), which was continued by Bruno Migliorini , had great success .

Panzini was a member of the Reale Accademia d'Italia (1929) created by the fascist government and existed from 1926 to 1943 .

In 2008 in Bellaria-Igea Marina , where Panzini owned a house, the Accademia Panziniana was founded, which maintains an information-rich website.

Alfredo Panzini, romanzi

Works

  • 1938 - Socrates and Xanthippe: Seriousness and irony about the "wisest of all people" , Bruckmann
  • 19? - The Count Cavour: savior and unite of Italy , Paul Zsolnay publisher

Fiction (selection)

  • Il libro dei morti , Milan 1893, 1919, 1941
  • Piccole storie del mondo grande , Milan 1901 (partial edition: Leuma e Lia , edited by Walter Hebeisen, Bern 1942)
  • La lanterna di Diogene , Milan 1907, 1939, Bologna 1999 (Romanian, Bucharest 1972)
  • Santippe. Piccolo romanzo fra l'antico e il moderno , Milan 1914, 1941 (Hungarian: Pécs 1929; Polish: Lwów 1934; German: Sokrates and Xanthippe. Seriousness and irony about the “wisest of all people” , translated by Elsa Bruckmann , Munich 1938 ; French: Xanthippe. Petit roman antique et modern à la fois , Paris 1947)
  • Io cerco moglie! , Milan 1920, 1951 (French, Paris 1919; English, New York 1922; Romanian: Bucharest 1928; Serbo-Croatian, Zagreb 1961)
  • Il mondo è rotondo , Milan 1921
  • La pulcella senza pulcellaggio. Romanzo d'altri tempi , Milan 1925, 1939 (Swedish, Lund 1953; Hungarian, Budapest 1959)
  • Il bacio di Lesbia , Milan 1937, Bologna 2000
  • Sei romanzi tra due secoli , Milan 1939
  • Romanzi d'ambo i sessi , ed. by P. Pancrazi, Milan 1941
  • Opere scelte , a cura di Goffredo Bellonci, Milan 1970
  • (with Francesco Pastonchi ) Italian short stories , translated by Carl Steinhoff , Wilhelmshorst 1997

Italian and Classical Philology

Ancient languages

  • (Ed.) Elegie di Ovidio e Tibullo , Milan 1891
  • (Ed.) Le Bucoliche di Virgilio , Milan 1891
  • (Ed.) Nuova Antologia latina. Brani tratti da autori della bassa latinità e medievali , Milan 1899, 1909
  • (Ed.) Le Opere ei Giorni di Esiodo , Milan 1928

Italian literary history

  • (Ed.) Agnolo Fiorenzuola, Scritti , Milan 1890
  • L'evoluzione di Goisuè Carducci , Milan 1894, 1948, 1994
  • Matteo Maria Boiardo , Messina 1918
    • (Ed.) Le più belle pagine di Matteo Maria Boiardo , Milan 1926
  • Dante nel sesto centenario. Per la gioventù e per il popolo , Milan 1921
  • La bella storia d'Orlando innamorato e poi furioso , Milan 1933
  • Casa Leopardi. La giovinezza di Giacomo. Il nobil'uomo Monaldo , ed. by P. Pancrazi, Florence 1948

lexicography

  • Dizionario moderno. Supplemento ai dizionari tradizionali , Milan 1905, 1908, 1918, 1923, 1927
    • Dizionario moderno. Supplemento delle parole che non si trovano negli altri dizionari , 1931, 1935; ed. by Alfredo Schiaffini and Bruno Migliorini 1942, 1950, 1963

Grammar and rhetoric

  • Semplici nozioni di grammatica , Milan 1913, 1930
    • Grammatica italiana e introduzione allo studio del latino , Florence 1940
  • Manualetto di retorica , Florence 1912, 1929
    • La parola e la vita. Avviamento all'arte dello scrivere e all'analisi estetica , Milan 1929
  • Piccola guida della grammatica italiana con un prontuario delle incertezze. Libretto utile per ogni persona , Florence 1932

history

  • Il 1859. Da Plombieres a Villafranca. Storia narrata , Milan 1909
    • Il conte di Cavour , Milan 1931 (French: Cavour et l'épopée du Risorgimento , Paris 1922; Romanian, Craiova 1932; German: Der Graf Cavour. Savior and Unity of Italy , Berlin / Vienna / Leipzig 1940; Spanish: Madrid 1945)
  • La patria nostra. Storia romana, medievale e moderna , 3 vols., Milan 1910

literature

  • Alfredo Panzini, La cicuta, i gigli e le rose , ed. by M. Moretti, Milan 1950
  • Bruno Storni , Viaggio e divagazione. Saggio critico su Alfredo Panzini , Bern 1959
  • Giorgio De Rienzo, Alfredo Panzini , Milan 1968
  • Johannes Hösle, Basics of Italian Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries , Darmstadt 1979, p. 78
  • Panzini nella cultura letteraria italiana fra '800 e' 900 , ed. by Ennio Grassi, Rimini 1985
  • Aldo Duro , 188. La lexicographie italienne du Xxe siècle, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1863–1880 (here: pp. 1867–1868)
  • Alfredo Panzini. Biografia e opere , ed. by Egidio Finamore, Rimini 1993
  • Tommaso Scappaticci, Il caso Panzini , Naples 2000

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Panzini, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, historian, Italianist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Senigallia
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1939
Place of death Rome