Cesare Foligno

Cesare Foligno (born March 15, 1878 in Giussano , † November 9, 1963 in Naples ) was an Italian Romance studies , English studies and literary scholar who worked for 30 years in Oxford.

life and work

Foligno was a student of Francesco Novati (1859-1915) in Milan. Before the First World War he taught in Oxford as a lecturer, from 1819 as Serena Professor of Italian. In 1940 he left England and became Professor of English in Naples (until 1953). He was a co-founder (1937) and editor of the journal Italian Studies . Foligno edited volumes X (1953) and XI (1958) of the national edition of Ugo Foscolo (editor-in-chief: Mario Fubini).

Works

• Italian travelers in England and the beginning of English literature influence in Italy during the eighteenth century. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, October 30, 1909, Oxford 1910
• The Story of Padua, London 1910
• Epochs of Italian literature, Oxford 1920
• Dante, Bergamo 1921
• Latin thought during the middle ages, Oxford 1929
• Premesse allo studio di Dante, Naples 1944
• Prosatori inglesi del settecento, Naples 1946
• (Translation from Italian into English) Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt, London 1948
• (Ed. Together with Cino Chiarini) I racconti di Canterbury, Florence 1949
• Risonanze classiche nelle lettere inglesi, Naples 1950
• Foscolo e Manzoni, Naples 1951
• (with Raffaele Petrera) Come leggere Shakespeare e altri saggi, Rome 1974

literature

• Dizionario biografico degli Italiani sv (1997, pp. 556–558)
• ER Vincent in: Italian Studies 19, 1964, pp. 91-93
• Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383