Walter Binni
Walter Binni (born May 4, 1913 in Perugia , † November 27, 1997 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and literary scholar, Romanist and Italianist .
life and work
Binni studied from 1931 at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and received his doctorate in 1935 under Luigi Russo with the thesis La poetica del decadentismo (Florence 1936, most recently 1996). After his military service he taught in Pavia , from 1939 in his hometown of Perugia at the Università per stranieri (interrupted by military service). In 1942 he became a private lecturer in Pisa .
His anti-fascist engagement, begun in 1936 at the side of Aldo Capitini , led to joining the Socialist Party (PSIUP, from 1947 PSLI) and participating in the Resistenza in 1943 . In 1946 he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly in his home district.
Binni taught at the University of Genoa from 1948 to 1956 , from 1956 to 1964 at the University of Florence and from 1964 until his retirement in 1989 at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. From 1953 to 1992 he was editor of the magazine La Rassegna della Letterature italiana.
Binni was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1977) and an honorary citizen of the city of Genoa (1983).
Works
- Vita interiore dell'Alfieri, Bologna 1942
- Preromanticismo italiano, Naples 1947
- La nuova poetica leopardiana, Florence 1947
- Metodo e poesia di Ludovico Ariosto, Messina-Florence 1947
- Critici e poeti dal Cinquecento al Novecento, Florence 1951
- (Eds.) Francesco De Sanctis, Giacomo Leopardi, Bari 1953
- I classici italiani nella storia della critica, 3 vols., Florence 1954-1977
- Foscolo e la critica, Florence 1957; Foscolo e la critica. Storia e antologia della critica, Florence 1966
- Carducci e altri saggi, Turin 1960
- Classicismo e neoclassicismo nella letteratura del Settecento, Florence 1963
- L'Arcadia e il Metastasio, Florence 1963
- Poetica, critica e storia letteraria, Bari 1963; Poetica, critica e storia letteraria e altri scritti di metodologia, Florence 1993
- Michelangelo scrittore, Rome 1965; Turin 1975
- Il Settecento letterario, Milan 1968 (Storia della letteratura italiana 6)
- (with Natalino Sapegno) Storia letteraria delle regioni d'Italia, Florence 1968
- (Ed. With Enrico Ghidetti) Giovanni Leopardi, Tutte le opere, Florence 1969
- Saggi alfieriani, Florence 1969; Rome 1981; Studi alfieriani, 2 vols., Ed. by Marco Dondero, Modena 1995
- La protesta di Leopardi, Florence 1973
- Settecento maggiore. Analisi della poetica e della poesia di Goldoni, Parini e Alfieri, Milan 1978
- Monti poeta del consenso, Florence 1981
- Ugo Foscolo. Storia e poesia, Turin 1982
- Incontri con Dante, Ravenna 1983
- La tramontana a Porta Sole. Scritti perugini ed umbri, Quaderni Regione dell'Umbria 1984; Perugia 2007
- Lettura delle Operetta Morali, Genova 1987
- Lezioni leopardiane, ed. by Novella Bellucci, with the assistance of Marco Dondero, Florence 1994, 1998
- Metodo e poesia di Ludovico Ariosto e altri studi ariosteschi, ed. by R. Alhaique Pettinelli, Florence 1996
- Poetica e poesia. Letture novecentesche, ed. by Francesco and Lanfranco Binni, Milan 1999
- L'ultimo periodo della lirica leopardiana, ed. by C. Biagioli, Perugia 2009
- La disperata tensione. Scritti politici (1934–1997), ed. by Lanfranco Binni, Florence 2011
literature
- Lanfranco Binni, La protesta di Walter Binni. Una biografia, Florence 2013
Web links
- http://www.fondowalterbinni.it/ (with biography and list of publications, Italian, numerous pictures)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Binni, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician and literary scholar, Romanist and Italianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perugia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1997 |
| Place of death | Rome |