Emilio Teza

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Emilio Teza

Emilio Teza (born September 24, 1831 in Venice , † March 30, 1912 in Padua ) was an Italian Romanist , Indo-Europeanist , Orientalist , philologist , linguist , literary scholar and translator .

life and work

Teza, first a librarian - first at the Biblioteca Marciana in his hometown, then at the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence - was from 1860 full professor at the University of Bologna , later in Pisa and Padua .

Teza did not publish an important book, but rather numerous shorter scholarly works from the most varied areas of linguistics and literary studies covering all continents and many languages ​​(from Sanskrit to Coptic to Creole languages ). He translated from several languages ​​(including Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea ) and maintained extensive correspondence with fellow scholars from home and abroad.

In 1886 he was accepted into the Accademia della Crusca in Florence , from 1891 he was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) Vita, giornali, lettere di Vittorio Alfieri, Florence 1861
  • (Ed.) La Fisiognomia, trattatello in francese antico colla versione italiana del, Bologna 1864, 1968
  • Saggi inediti di lingue americane, Pisa 1868
  • (Ed.) Rainardo elesengrino, Pisa 1869
  • (Ed.) Catechismo dei missionari cattolici in lingua algonchina, Pisa 1872
  • (Translator) Traduzioni, Milan 1888
  • (Translator) Guglielmo de Lorris, Dal Romanzo della Rosa, Padua 1896

Correspondence ( carteggi )

  • Epistolario de Rufino José Cuervo y Emilio Teza, ed. by Ana Hauser and Jorge Páramo Pomareda, Bogotá 1965
  • Carteggio GI Ascoli -E. Teza, ed. by Rita Peca Conti, Pisa 1978
  • Ivan Seidl, Jaroslav Vrchlický and Emilio Teza v kontextu česko-italských literárních a kulturních vztahů, Brno 1988
  • A correspondência entre Joaquim de Araújo e Emilio Teza, 1895–1910. Espólios da Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, de Veneza, ed. by Manuel G. Simões, Lisbon 1998

literature

  • Guido Mazzoni: Teza, Emilio . In: Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1937 ( online at treccani.it)
  • Carlo Frati , Bibliografia di Emilio Teza. Indice cronologico de suoi scritti e stampa e di quelli che lo riguardono (1855–1913) , Venice 1913
  • Francesco Flamini, Poeti e critici della nuova Italia , Naples 1920
  • Jolanda Marchiori, Emilio Teza, traduttore di poesia popolare serbo-croata , Padua 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership list of the Crusca

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