Charles Speroni

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Charles Speroni (born November 2, 1911 in Santa Fiora , † August 28, 1984 in Los Angeles ) was an American Romanist and Italianist of Italian origin.

Life

Speroni graduated from high school in Rome and studied from 1929 at the University of California at Berkeley . He received his doctorate in Romance Philology in 1938 with the work Folklore in The Divine Comedy and became an assistant professor. During the Second World War he directed Italian language training for American soldiers. From 1949 to 1956 he headed the newly established department of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles as a professor . From 1968 until his retirement in 1979 he was dean of the College of Fine Arts.

Speroni was the editor of The Italian Quarterly and The Modern Language Forum .

Speroni was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Komtur, 1973).

Works

  • Proverbs and proverbial phrases in Basile's “Pentameron”, in: University of California publications in modern philology 24.2, 1941, pp. 182–288, New York 1945
  • (with Charles Emil Kany ) Elementary / Intermediate / Advanced Italian conversation, Boston 1942
    • Spoken Italian for students and travelers, Boston 1946, 1978
    • Spoken Italian for travelers and tourists, Boston 1948
  • (Ed.) Charles Merbury, “Proverbi vulgari”, in: University of California publications in modern philology 28.3, 1945, pp. 63–157
  • The Italian wellerism to the end of the seventeenth century, Berkeley 1953
  • (with Carlo Luigi Golino ) Basic Italian, New York 1958, 7th edition 1997
  • (with Carlo Luigi Golino) Panorama italiano, New York 1960
  • (Ed. With Irving Stone and Jean Stone) Michelangelo, Lettere, Milan 1963
  • Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance, Berkeley 1964 (Chinese, Beijing 2013)
  • (with Carlo Luigi Golino) Leggendo e ripassando, New York 1968
  • (Ed. With Maddalena Mauro and Anna Bruni Seldis) l'Italia oggi. A basic reader, New York 1976
  • (Ed. With Giorgio Buccellati) The Shape of the past. Studies in honor of Franklin D. Murphy, Los Angeles 1981

literature

  • The Los Angeles Times September 13, 1984
  • Dean, mentor, colleague bridging humanities and fine arts at UCLA. Oral history transcript , Los Angeles 1988 (interview by Bernard Galm)
  • Giacomo Leopardi. Proceedings of the congress held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 10-11, 1988, for the inauguration of the Charles Speroni Chair of Italian Studies , Stony Brook 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Speroni, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fiora
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1984
Place of death los Angeles