Carlo Salinari

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Carlo Salinari (born November 17, 1919 in Montescaglioso , † May 25, 1977 in Rome ) was an Italian Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Salinari studied at La Sapienza University in Rome with Natalino Sapegno and graduated in 1941 with a thesis on Guido Cavalcanti . He joined the Communist Party of Italy (KPI) and played a leading role in the Italian resistance movement . After the Second World War he was first assistant at the Sapienza, then from 1951 to 1955 cultural advisor of the KPI. After completing his habilitation in 1949, he taught at the universities of Cagliari and Milan , from 1963 as a full professor of Italian literature, most recently at the Sapienza (there also as dean in 1977). A grammar school in Montescaglioso and a square in Rome bears his name.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) La poesia lirica del Duecento , Turin 1951, Milan 2013
  • Miti e coscienza del decadentismo italiano. D'Annunzio. Pascoli. Fogazzaro e Pirandello , Milan 1960 (numerous editions; Romanian, Bucharest 1971)
  • La questione del realismo. Poeti e narratori del novecento , Florence 1960
  • Storia popolare della letteratura italiana , 3 vols., Rome 1962 (partial translation, Czech, Prague 1964)
    • Profilo storico della letteratura italiana , 3 vols., Rome 1972
  • Sommario di Storia della Letteratura Italiana , Rome 1965
  • (Ed.) Vocabolario della lingua parlata in Italia , Milan 1967
    • Dizionario ragionato della lingua parlata in Italia , Milan 1981
  • Preludio e fine del realismo in Italia , Naples 1967
  • (Ed. With Carlo Ricci) Storia della letteratura italiana con antologia degli scrittori e dei critici , 4 vols., Rome / Bari 1969–1973 (several editions)
    • 1. Dalle origini a tutto il Quattrocento
    • 2. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento
    • 3. The Ottocento e il Novecento
    • 4. Il secondo dopoguerra
  • La Critica della letteratura italiana , Naples 1973, 1985
  • Giorgio Saviane , Florence 1976
  • (Ed.) La divina Commedia , 3 vols., 1980

literature

  • Carlo Salinari. Testimonianze e saggi , Rome 1980
  • Joseph Francese, Cultura e politica negli anni Cinquanta. Salinari. Pasolini. Calvino , Rome 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Salinari, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Montescaglioso
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1977
Place of death Rome