Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina

Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina.

Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina , (born February 28, 1731 in Revello in Piedmont , † December 5, 1813 in Paris ), was an Italian philologist and historian .

Denina studied in Turin , the fine arts and theology . In 1754 he received the professorship of the Humaniora in Pinerolo , which he lost due to a comedy that his superiors disapproved of, which he had his students perform. In 1756 he became associate professor of rhetoric , later professor of Greek language and Italian literature at the College of Turin University .

When he secretly published his work “Dell'impiego delle persone” in Florence , despite a ban from his employer , the university sent him to a seminar in Vercelli for six months and, after that time, was referred to Revello. It was not until 1781 that he was allowed to return to Turin. In 1782, at the request of Frederick the Great, he moved to Berlin , where he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences from November 7, 1782 to January 24, 1812 . In 1787 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

He later held the title of Legation Councilor and Canon in Warsaw . After the Battle of Marengo 's Board of Directors appointed him Piedmont to the librarian of the University of Turin; but before he took office, Napoléon Bonaparte assigned him the post of imperial librarian in Paris for the dedication of his “Clef des langues” in 1804 .

Denina wrote numerous historical works, such as on ancient Greece , Prussia , Frederick the Great and Germany, some of which are written in French.

Works

• His epic “La Russiade” (Berl. 1799–1800) contains a glorification of Peter the Great
• Discours on the vicissitudes of the literature. 1760.
• Delle revoluzioni d'Italia libri ventiquattro. 1769.
• Histoire politique et littéraire de la Grèce. 1781.
• Essai sur la vie de Frédéric II. 1788.
• La Prusse littéraire sous Frédéric II. 1790.
• Revolutions de la Germanie. 1804.
• Histoire du Piémont. 1805.
• La Clef des langues. 1805. Reprint Slatkine, Geneva 2003, ed. Jürgen Storost. See also: Jürgen Storost: Carlo Denina 'La Clef des Langues'. In: Jürgen Storost: In memoriam Vladimiro Macchi. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2008, pp. 84–100.
• Histoire de l'Italie occidentale. 1809.

literature

• Jürgen Storost: 300 years of Romance languages ​​and literatures at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2001, part 1, pp. 112-131 (on Denina's membership in the Berlin Academy of Sciences).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina in the bibliographic database WorldCat