Aurelio Roncaglia

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Aurelio Roncaglia (born May 8, 1917 in Modena , † June 28, 2001 in Rome ) was an Italian Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Roncaglia, son of the musicologist Gino Roncaglia (1883–1968), studied (in Pisa, Florence and Rome) with Luigi Russo (with whom he obtained his doctorate), Giorgio Pasquali , Clemente Merlo , Michele Barbi , Alfredo Schiaffini and Giulio Bertoni . From 1941 to 1947 he did military service and worked in a ministry. After the war he was Angelo Monteverdi's assistant and taught from 1949 to 1954 as a lecturer in Trieste , then as a professor in Pavia . From 1956 to 1992 he was full professor of Romance philology at La Sapienza University in Rome.

Roncaglia was president of the Société de Linguistique Romane (1983-1986), as well as a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1984) and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1992).

Works

Monographs

  • La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico , Rome 1965, 1992, 2010
  • La lingua d'oïl. Avviamento allo studio del francese antico , Rome 1971, 1993; La lingua d'oïl. Profilo di grammatica del francese antico , Pisa / Rome 2005
  • Principi e applicazioni di critica testuale , Rome 1975
  • Tristano e anti-Tristano. Dialettica di temi e d'ideologie nella narrativa medievale , Rome 1981
  • Le origini della lingua e della letteratura italiana , ed. by Anna Ferrari, Turin 2006
  • Epica francese medievale , ed. by Anna Ferrari and Madeleine Tyssens, Rome 2012

Editorial activity

  • Chanson de Roland , Modena 1940, 1947
  • Boccaccio, Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia , Bari 1941
  • Venticinque poesie dei primi trovatori (Guillem IX, Marcabru, Jaufre Rudel, Bernart de Ventadorn) , Modena 1949
  • Michelangelo Tanaglia (1437–1512), De agricultura , Bologna 1953
  • Poetry d'amore spagnole d'ispirazione melica popolaresca. Dalle kharge mozarabiche a Lope de Vega , Modena 1953
  • Antologia delle letterature medievali d'oc e d'oïl , Milan 1961, 1973

literature

  • Miscellanea di studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia a cinquant'anni dalla sua laurea , 4 vols., Modena 1989
  • Corriere della Sera June 29, 2001
  • La filologia romanza oggi. Atti della Giornata di studio in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia (Modena October 19, 2002) , ed. by Patrizia Paradisi and Cecilia Robustelli, Modena 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Roncaglia, Aurelio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Modena
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2001
Place of death Rome