Ezio Levi

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Ezio Levi (born July 19, 1884 in Mantua , † March 28, 1941 in Boston ) was an Italian Romanist , Italianist , Hispanic , Medievalist and jazz musician .

life and work

Levi came from a Sephardic family from Ferrara . He studied at the University of Pavia (graduated in 1906), then in Florence with Pio Rajna and Alessandro D'Ancona . He was first a high school teacher in Lucera and Naples . In 1921 he married a niece of his teacher D'Ancona and called himself Levi D'Ancona from then on. From 1922 to 1925 he held a chair in Palermo , from 1925 the chair for Romance Philology in Naples . The Italian race laws enacted by Benito Mussolini in 1938 forced him to emigrate to the United States. From 1940 he taught at Wellesley College .

Ezio Levi was also a jazz pianist and played a role in the implementation of jazz in Italy (against the resistance of the fascists), including as co-author of the first Italian introduction to jazz music.

Ezio Levi was the father of the art historian Mirella Levi D'Ancona (1919–2014).

Works

  • Francesco di Vannozzo e la lirica nelle corti lombarde durante la seconda metà del secolo XIV, Florence 1908
  • Antonio e Nicolò da Ferrara, poeti e uomini di corte del Trecento, Ferrara 1909
  • (Ed.) Fiore di leggende. Cantari antichi. Series great. Cantari leggendari, Bari 1914
  • I cantari leggendari del popolo italiano nei secoli XIV e XV, Turin 1914
  • II Principe Don Carlos nella leggenda e nella poesia, Pavia 1914, Rome 1924
  • Poesia di popolo e poesia di corte nel Trecento, Livorno 1915, Bologna 1971, Paris 1976
  • (Ed.) Il libro dei cinquanta miracoli della Vergine, Bologna 1917
  • Il canzoniere di Maestro Antonio da Ferrara, Firenze 1918
  • I lais brettoni e la leggenda di Tristano, Perugia 1918
  • Piccarda e Gentucca. Studi e ricerche dantesche, Bologna 1921
  • (Ed.) I Poeti antichi lombardi, Milan 1921, Bologna 1979
  • Studi sulle opere di Maria di Francia, Florence 1922
  • Nella letteratura spagnola contemporanea. Saggi, Florence 1922
  • L'unita del mondo latino, Rome 1926
  • (with Ettore Gàbrici) Uguccione da Lodi ei primordi della poesia italiana, Venice 1928
  • Lo Steri di Palermo e le sue pitture, Rome 1932, Palermo 2003
  • Motivos hispánicos, Florence 1933 (preface by Ramón Menéndez Pidal )
  • Vite romantiche, Naples 1934
  • Lope de Vega e l'Italia, Florence 1935 (preface by Luigi Pirandello )
  • Cinque studi sull'Ariosto, Naples 1938

jazz

  • (with Gian Carlo Testoni, 1912–1965) Introduzione alla vera musica di jazz, Milan 1938

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Levi, Ezio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levi D'Ancona, Ezio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian romanist, hispanist and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1941
Place of death Boston