Corrado Avolio

Corrado Avolio (born February 16, 1843 in Syracuse , † September 1, 1905 in Noto ) was an Italian Romance scholar and dialectologist .

life and work

Avolio fought alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Battle of Milazzo in 1860 . Then he studied pharmacy in Catania and from 1863 settled as a pharmacist in Noto for life . His passion was Sicilian dialectology, in which he autodidactically rose to become a recognized scientist. He was in contact with numerous linguistic experts of his time, especially Alessandro D'Ancona , Graziadio Ascoli and Michele Amari . He checked and named the Codici Sciclitani , which after his death turned out to be a fake.

Avolio's book of 1882 on the Sicilian dialects was important and has been published up to the most recent times. His etymological dictionary of Old Sicilian and his dialect dictionary of Sicilian did not come to an end, as he became progressively unable to work from 1900 and died in 1905 at the age of 62.

A street in Noto is named after him.

Works

• (Ed.) Canti popolari di Noto , Noto 1875, Bologna 1970, Palermo 1974, 2006
• Introduzione allo studio del dialetto siciliano. Tentativo d'applicazione del metodo storico-comparativo , Noto 1882, Palermo 1975, Sala Bolognese 1984, S. Cristina Geli 1993, Palermo 2009
• Saggio di toponomastica siciliana , in: Supplementi periodici dell'Archivio glottologico italiano 1899; ed. by Sebastiano Burgaretta, Noto 1937, Syracuse 1988

literature

• Carmelo Sgroi , Un carteggio inedito di GI Ascoli e le sue relazioni con Corrado Avolio, in: Rivista della Società Filologica Friulana 3, 1922
• Carmelo Sgroi, Corrado Avolio. Dialettologo demopsicologo e glottologo siciliano , Noto 1927 (Annuario 1925-26 dell'Istituto Magistrale di Noto)
• Bruno Migliorini , AVOLIO, Corrado, in: Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani 1930 ( online at treccani.it )
• Carmelo Sgroi, Giunte e correzioni alle opere di Corrado Avolio, in: Archivio storico siciliano , 3, 5, 1953
• Antonia G. Mocciaro, Per una storia della ricerca etimologica in Sicilia. Il vocabolario etimologico siciliano manoscritto di Corrado Avolio, in: Etimologia e lessico dialettale. Atti del 12. Convegno per gli studi dialettali italiani. Macerata, 10-13 April 1979 , Pisa 1981
• Giorgio Picitto:  AVOLIO, Corrado. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.

Web links

• Literature by and about Corrado Avolio in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Publications by Corrado Avolio in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
• Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN
• http://www.lires.altervista.org/documenti/Corrado_Avolio_con_foto.pdf (appreciation, Italian, with picture)
• Corrado Avolio's publications in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii