Dante Isella

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Dante Isella (born November 11, 1922 in Varese , † December 3, 2007 ibid) was an Italian Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Isella attended high school in Varese and first studied in Milan, from 1944 with Gianfranco Contini at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . He received his doctorate from the University of Florence in 1947 with the thesis La lingua e lo stile di Carlo Dossi (Milan / Naples 1958, Milan 2010).

Isella first taught at the University of Parma , from 1966 to 1967 at the University of Catania , from 1967 to 1977 in Pavia and from 1972 to 1988 at the University of Zurich (from 1972 to 1977 in both places).

Isella was founding editor of the magazine Questo e altro from 1962 (until 1964) and from 1966 co-editor of the magazine Strumenti critici . From 1961 to 1993 he published the Classici italiani series .

Isella developed (in addition to his monographic works) from 1955 until his death a wide-ranging editorial activity, which referred to numerous authors, including Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo , Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Carlo Dossi , Carlo Maria Maggi (1630–1699) , Alessandro Manzoni , Giuseppe Parini , Carlo Emilio Gadda , Francesco De Lemene (1634–1704), Delio Tessa (1886–1939), Biagio Bellotti (1714–1789), Eugenio Montale , Elio Vittorini , Beppe Fenoglio and Vittorio Sereni (1913– 1983).

Isella was a member of the Accademia della Crusca (1988, corresponding member since 1980) and the Accademia dei Lincei (1997). He has received numerous awards.

Works (except as an editor)

  • L'officina della "notte" e altri studi pariniani , Milan / Naples 1968 (Giuseppe Parini)
  • Ritratto dal vero di Carlo Porta , Milan 1973
  • I lombardi in rivolta. Da Carlo Maria Maggi a Carlo Emilio Gadda , Turin 1984, 2002
  • Le carte mescolate. Esperienze di filologia d'autore , Padua 1987 (collective publication )
  • L'idillio di Meulan. Da Manzoni a Sereni , Turin 1994
  • Dovuto a Montale , Milan 1997
  • Per due liriche di Finisterre. Lezione Sapegno 1997 , Turin 1997
  • Carlo Porta. Cinquant'anni di lavori in corso , Turin 2003 (collective publication )
  • Lombardia stravagante. Testi e studi dal Quattrocento al Seicento tra lettere e arti , Turin 2005 (collective publication)
  • Le carte mescolate vecchie e nuove, ed. by Silvia Isella Brusamolino, Turin 2009 (collective publication, posthumous)

literature

  • Cristina Montagnani:  ISELLA, Dante. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI), 2013.
  • Studi di letteratura italiana offerti a Dante Isella , Naples 1983
  • Dante Isella, Giornale di Frontiera , Milan 1991
  • Pietro De Marchi and Guido Pedrojetta: I libri di Dante Isella , Milan 1993
  • Dante Isella, Un anno degno di essere vissuto , Milan 2009
  • Ottavio Besomi, Dante Isella allievo a Friburgo, maestro a Zurigo, in: Strumenti critici 24, 2009, pp. 185-2001
  • Dante Isella e la filologia d'autore. Atti della giornata di studi, Università di Pavia, 30 ottobre 2008 , ed. by Franco Gavazzeni and Clelia Martignoni, Bologna 2009
  • Christian Genetelli, Dante Isella e Gianfranco Contini. Una lunga fedeltà, in: Ermeneutica letteraria 7, 2011, pp. 99–115

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personal data
SURNAME Isella, Dante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2007
Place of death Varese