Ettore Bignone

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Ettore Bignone (born December 17, 1879 in Pinerolo ; † August 11, 1953 in Florence ) was an Italian classical philologist (with a focus on Greek studies ) and historian of philosophy .

Life

Ettore Bignone was the son of Carlo Bignone and Anita Matteucci. After attending school, he studied Classical Philology at the University of Turin , where he acquired the laurea in Classical Philology with a dissertation on Lucretius in 1901 , and the laurea in Philosophy in 1902. After that he taught in different schools. He obtained his libera docenza at the University of Pavia from Giuseppe Fraccaroli (1849–1918) and Carlo Pascal (1866–1926). On December 14, 1910 he was accepted into the Freemason Lodge Colonia Augusta of Verona . On January 1, 1922, he was appointed professor of Greek literature at the University of Palermo . In 1925 he was appointed professor of classical philology and later of Greek and Latin literature at the University of Florence . Until his retirement in 1950 he was a colleague of Giorgio Pasquali . In 1938 he accepted the Premio Mussolini and was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Also in 1938 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . In 1939 he was appointed Accademico d'Italia .

Research priorities and translations

Bignone worked as a philologist and as a historian of philosophy. Editions by Empedocles and Epicurus are among his early works . He submitted a critical work on the Hellenistic poet Theocritus . His main work, however, is the emphasis on the studies on the influence of Platonic and Aristotelian thought, especially Aristotelian Protrepticus , on the development of Epicurean philosophy. In addition, he submitted translations, especially of Sophocles and Aeschylus, with poetic claims. A Latin literary history, of which few volumes have been published, remained unfinished.

Fonts (selection)

  • I poeti filosofi della Grecia: Empedocle. Studio critico, traduzione e commento delle testimonianze e dei frammenti. Turin 1916 (reprinted by Roma 1963).
  • Epicuro, Opere, frammenti, testimonianze della vita, tradotti con introduzione e commento. Bari 1920.
  • L'epigramma greco. Studio critico e traduzioni poetiche. Bologna 1921.
  • Eros. Il libro d'amore della poesia greca. Traduzioni poetiche. Turin 1921, second edition 1944.
  • Gli Idilli di Teocrito. Palermo 1925. - (translation)
  • Sofocle, Le Trachinie, tradotte in versi italiani, con un saggio critico. Florence 1933.
  • Teocrito . Saggio critico. Bari 1934.
  • L'Aristotele perduto e la formazione filosofica di Epicuro. Florence 1936 (reprint with Appendix 1973).
  • I poeti apollinei: Sofocle, Euripide, Orazio. Bari 1937.
  • Le tragedie di Sofocle. 4 vols. Florence 1937-1938. - (translation with introductions)
  • Studi sul pensiero antico. Naples 1938. - (Reprint of earlier work on Plato and Antiphon)
  • Le tragedie di Eschilo. Naples 1939. - (translation with introductions)
  • Il libro della letteratura greca. Florence 1940.
  • Storia della letteratura latina , I: Originalità e formazione dello spirito romano. L'epica e il teatro dell'età della repubblica. Florence 1942; II: La prosa romana sino all'età di Cesare. Lucilio, Lucrezio, Catullo . Vol. 1-2, Florence 1946 and 1945; III: I 'poetae novi', Cesare, Sallustio, Varrone Reatino, i minori prosatori dell'età di Cesare, M. Tullio Cicerone. Florence 1950 (unfinished)
  • (Ed.), Problemi e orientamenti critici di lingua e letteratura classica. Milan 1951.
  • Sofocle, Le tragedie tradotte in versi. Florence 1953 (posthumously).

literature

  • Ugo Enrico Paoli : Ettore Bignone , in: Atene e Roma , 4th series, volume 3, 1953, pp. 161-164.
  • Eugenio Garin : Ettore Bignone storico della filosofia. In: Atene e Roma , 4th series, volume 3, 1953, pp. 165-170.
  • MR Posani: Bibliografia di Ettore Bignone. In: Atene e Roma , 4th series, Volume 3, 1953, pp. 171–176 (detailed list of publications).
  • Vittorio Bartoletti: Ettore Bignone †. In: Gnomon , Volume 26, 1954, pp. 429-431.
  • Epicurea in memoriam Hectoris Bignone. Miscellanea philologica. (= Università di Genova, Facoltà di Lettere, Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filologia classica. Volume 2). Istituto di Filologia Classica, Genova 1959.
  • Mario Untersteiner : Ettore Bignone. In: Epicurea in memoriam Hectoris Bignone. Miscellanea philologica. (= Università di Genova, Facoltà di Lettere, Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filologia classica. Volume 2). Istituto di Filologia Classica, Genova 1959, pp. 9-25.
  • Francesco Della Corte : Ricordo di Ettore Bignone . Biblioteca filosofica di Torino, Turin 1965.
  • Piero Treves:  Bignone, Ettore. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 10:  Biagio-Boccaccio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1968, pp. 439-442.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 40.
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bignone, Ettore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist (with a focus on Greek studies) and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinerolo
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1953
Place of death Florence