Antonio Zoncada

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Antonio Zoncada (born February 4, 1813 in Codogno , † July 15, 1887 in Pavia ) was an Italian author, Romanist , Italianist and literary historian.

life and work

Zoncada was destined to be ordained a priest, but entered secular life in 1834 and taught at high schools. As a participant in the Milan five-day uprising of 1848 against the Austrians, he was dismissed and a private tutor. In 1853 he received a call to the chair for aesthetics and Latin and Greek literature at the University of Pavia . From 1863 he held the chair for Italian literature there.

Works

Romance studies and literary history

  • Eccellenza della lingua italiana e modo di studiarla , Milan 1853
  • I fasti delle lettere in Italia nel corrente secolo , Milan 1853
  • Corso di letteratura classica , 4 vols., Milan 1855-1858
  • Dante e l'arte in Italia , Pavia 1864
  • I dialetti d'Italia. Letture pubbliche , Pavia 1875
  • Clio ovvero i fasti della storia , Turin 1882
  • Alfieri e Rousseau , Pavia 1883

Own poetry and prose

  • Saggio di poesie , Milan 1837
  • Poetry , Milan 1843
  • Tre racconti ad istruzione dei giovinetti , Milan 1850
  • Carlo Goldoni a Pavia. Racconto storico , Pavia 1866, 1999
  • La siciliana. Racconto contemporaneo , Codogno 1868

Translations from French

  • Xavier Marmier, Lettere sulla Danimarca, la Svezia, la Norvegia, la Laponia e lo Spitzberg , 4 vols., Milan 1841
  • François Guizot, Storia generale della civiltà in Europa , Milan 1841
  • Mathieu Richard Auguste Henrion, Storia generale della Chiesa , 13 vols., Milan 1843–1850
  • Louis de Loménie, Biography d'uomini illustri contemporanei , Milan 1845

literature

  • Edgar Radtke , Antonio Zoncada (1813–1887) and the pioneering of scientific dialectology in Italy, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum et al., Tübingen 1994, pp. 337-357

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personal data
SURNAME Zoncada, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, Romanist, Italianist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Codogno
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1887
Place of death Pavia