Angela Daneu Lattanzi

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Angela Daneu Lattanzi (born October 5, 1901 in Alexandria , † April 24, 1985 in Palermo ) was an Italian librarian and manuscript researcher .

After graduating from high school in Egypt, she went to Italy in 1920 to study at La Sapienza University in Rome and at the same time at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia . In 1926 she graduated with the Laurea in Lettere antiche , at the academy she obtained the diploma for violoncello. At the time she was married to the art historian Emilio Lavagnino . In 1934 she won a concorso as a scientific librarian and was assigned to the Biblioteca Casanatense and temporarily the Biblioteca Alessandrina . Because of her second marriage to the Palermitan antiquarian and collector Antonio Daneu , she was transferred to the Biblioteca Nazionale in Palermo in 1937 . In 1940 she was entrusted with the outsourcing of rare and valuable books because the library director Alberto Giraldi had been called to arms. From 1943 to 1966 she was soprintendente alle biblioteche per la Sicilia occidentale , and from 1943 to 1945 she was also acting director of the national library. The repair of the war damage and the further expansion of the municipal and regional library system were among the most important tasks of Angela Daneu Lattanzi as superintendent.

At the “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory in Palermo, she taught music history. At the University of Palermo she taught library studies as a libero docente with a special focus on book illumination . Her outline of the history of book illumination in Sicily became her standard work, and she cataloged the manuscripts and incunabula with miniatures in a two-volume catalog, the first volume of which on the holdings of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Palermo appeared in 1965, the second volume with the other libraries in Sicily followed in 1984 Her facsimile edition of the Nomina et virtutes balneorum by Petrus de Ebulo in the manuscript 1474 of the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome belongs to the thematic field of Norman-Staufer book art .

As a painter and pianist, she was not only valued in Palermo: in 1963 and 1967 she was invited to exhibitions in Toronto . Water color and oil painting were her preferred techniques, thematically she mainly treated landscapes. Some of her paintings are in the possession of the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Palermo) , others in private collections.

She was among the founders and chairwoman of the Soroptimist Club di Palermo , but above all she was chairwoman of the Sicilia Occidentale section of the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche from 1951 to 1979. She edited the monograph of her husband, who died in 1959, on the art of corals in Trapani .

In 2002, her daughter from her first marriage, Alessandra Lavagnino, published the novel Le bibliotecarie di Alessandria at Sellerio , which was inspired by her mother's life.

Publications (selection)

  • Lineamenti di storia della miniatura di Sicilia, Florence 1966
  • I manoscritti ed incunaboli miniati della Sicilia. 2 volumes, Rome 1965-1984
  • Nomina et virtutes balneorum seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum: codice Angelico 1474. 2, Rome 1962

literature

  • Giorgio De Gregori: Daneu Lattanzi, Angela . In: Giorgio De Gregori - Simonetta Buttò. Per una storia dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo. Dizionario bio-bibliografico 1900-1990 . Roma 1999, pp. 67–68 ( article online in the Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo )
  • Concetta Mineo: Ricordo di Angela Daneu Lattanzi online
  • Maria Concetta Di Natale: Angela Daneu Lattanzi e la storia della miniatura in Sicilia . In: Storia & Arte nella scrittura. L'Archivio Storico Diocesano di Palermo a 10 anni dalla riapertura al pubblico (1997-2007), “Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi: Palermo, Palazzo Arcivescovile - Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca, 9-10 November 2007” , a cura di Giovanni Travagliato , Santa Flavia (Pa) 2008, pp. 325-337

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personal data
SURNAME Daneu Lattanzi, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adala (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian librarian and manuscript researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1985
Place of death Palermo