Francesco Giunta

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Francesco Giunta (born October 26, 1924 in Gangi ; † January 14, 1994 in Palermo ) was an Italian medieval historian. He was also a collector and critic of contemporary art.

He completed his studies at the University of Palermo in 1946 with an examination of the manuscript of the Getica des Jordanes that had been handed down in Palermo . He then worked as an assistant to his teacher Antonino De Stefano , in 1950 he obtained the libera docenza with Giovanni Tabacco and Arsenio Frugoni . From 1951 he taught as a lecturer in Palermo, first palaeography and diplomatics , then medieval history. In 1956 he won the national concorso in front of Cinzio Violante and Pier Fausto Palumbo and professor for the history of the Middle Ages in Palermo. From 1986 to 1989 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Barcelona.

He provided essential impetus for the development of medieval archeology in Sicily in 1975 by founding the Scuola Superiore di Archeologia e Civiltà Medievali as part of the Centro di Cultura Scientifica Ettore Maiorana in Erice , which was preceded by an international conference on medieval archeology in September 1974. Because of his close contacts with Catalan historians, which had resulted from the research in the Archivo de la Corona d'Aragón in Barcelona , he was able to hold the international congress on the seven-century commemoration of the Sicilian Vespers as XI. Organize the Congresso di storia della corona d'Aragona from April 23-30, 1982 in Palermo, Trapani and Erice. Through him and his students numerous documents on the history of the Aragonese Sicily were published from the archive in Barcelona. It was on his initiative that the archives of the Messina Archives, which were moved from Messina to Spain in 1679, are now largely accessible to Italian and international research. They were "discovered" in the archives of the Dukes of Medinaceli in the Casa de Pilatos in Seville (today they are in the Palacio Tavera in Toledo ).

His friends included the artists Mino Maccari , Emilio Greco , Renato Guttuso and Bruno Caruso, as well as the writer Leonardo Sciascia .

Since 1967 he was a member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Palermo . In Tommaso Natale , just before Sferracavallo , a small side street was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jordanes e la cultura dell'alto Medioevo , Palermo 1952, reprinted Siracusa; Ediprint 1988
  • Medioevo mediterraneo: saggi storici , Palermo 1954
  • Cronache siciliane inedite della fine del medioevo , Palermo 1955 (Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia 4/14)
  • Uomini e cose del medioevo mediterraneo , Palermo 1964
  • Medioevo e medievisti: note di storiografia , Caltanissetta u. a. 1971
  • Per una storia della cultura nella Sicilia normanno-sveva , Palermo 1972
  • Bizantini e bizantinismo nella Sicilia normanna , Palermo 1974
  • with Antonino Grillone: Iordanis De origine actibusque Getarum , Roma 1991 (Fonti per la storia d'Italia / 117)

Modern Art Writings

  • Immagine e parola: Una laurea per Guttuso , Palermo 1971
  • La consapevole naivete di Maurilio Catalano , Caltanisetta: S. Scascia 1971
  • Maurilio Catalano: dal 12 febbraio al 20 marzo 1971 , Palermo: Arte al Borgo, 1971
  • Fascicolo dedicato a Mino Maccari , Caltanissetta: Sciascia, 1970

literature

  • Bibliografia delle opere di Francesco Giunta , in: Mediterraneo medievale. Scritti in onore di Francesco Giunta , Soveria Mannelli 1989
  • Salvatore Fodale: Ricordo di Francesco Giunta . In: Quaderni medievali 37, 1994, pp. 5-14
  • Il medioevo di Francesco Giunta. Atti della giornata di studio (Palermo 1 giugno 1995) , a cura di Salvatore Fodale, (Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Palermo. Studi e Ricerche, 25) Palermo 1996 [con bibliografia degli scritti di FG]
  • Mario Di Liberto: Palermo. Dizionario Storico Toponomastico. Volume I: A-M. ILA Palma, Palermo 2012, ISBN 978-88-7704-731-1 , p. 473.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guttuso designed the poster for the Sicilian Vespers Congress in 1982
  2. ↑ List of members until 1984
  3. ↑ In addition Di Liberto p. 473, also to be found on online maps.
personal data
SURNAME Giunta, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Gangi
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1994
Place of death Palermo