Claudio Leonardi

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Claudio Leonardi (born April 17, 1926 in Borgo Sacco , municipality of Rovereto ; † May 21, 2010 in Florence ) was an Italian Medievalist and Latinist specializing in Latin literature of the Middle Ages .

Life

Leonardi was born in Sach , a Frazione of Rovereto , and studied at the University of Milan with Ezio Franceschini and at the University of Friborg with Gianfranco Contini .

From 1960 to 1969 Leonardi was a scriptor for Latin manuscripts at the Vatican Library . In 1968 he began his career as a professor of medieval Latin literature, which took him via the Universities of Lecce , Perugia and Siena to the University of Florence , where he founded the Società Internazionale per lo studio del medioevo latino (SISMEL). He later became director of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini and the Edizioni del Galluzzo, the publishing house of SISMEL. He was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and, since 1988, the British Academy . Leonardi died in Florence at the age of 84 .

Award

literature

  • Francesco Santi: Claudio Leonardi . In: Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Storia e Politica , Rome 2013, pp. 824–829.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Necrologia mediolatina . Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Leonardi, Claudio <1926-2010> . Standard entry in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale . Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 28, 2020 .