Francesco Maggini

Francesco Maggini (born August 3, 1886 in Empoli , † January 5, 1964 in Florence ) was an Italian Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Maggini studied in Florence with Guido Mazzoni , Ernesto Giacomo Parodi and Pio Rajna (graduated in 1909). Until 1927 he was a high school teacher in Florence, then a lecturer at the university, from 1936 associate professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. From 1940 to 1961 he taught as a full professor of Italian literature at the University of Florence . He was a member of the Accademia della Crusca from 1936, until 1942 as its secretary and from 1946 to 1949 as director of the Centro di studi di filologia.

Works

• La Rettorica italiana di Brunetto Latini , Florence 1912,
• (Ed.) Brunetto Latini , La Rettorica , Florence 1915; 1968 (preface by Cesare Segre ), Bologna 1971
• (Ed.) I Fioretti di S. Francesco , Milan 1922
• (Ed.) Vittorio Alfieri , Commedie dagli autografi laurenziani , Florence 1926, 1959, 1968 (Opere 3)
• Introduzione allo studio di Dante , Bari 1936, 1942, 1948, 1965
• (Ed.) Vittorio Alfieri, Opere , 2 vols., Milan 1940, 1958
• I primi volgarizzamenti dai classici latini , Florence 1952
• (Ed.) Vittorio Alfieri, Rime , Asti 1954 (Opere 9)
• (Ed. With Michele Barbi) Dante Alighieri, Rime della "Vita nuova" e della giovinezza , Florence 1956 (Opere 2)

literature

• Domenico Proietti:  MAGGINI, Francesco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 67:  Macchi – Malaspina. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2006.
• Francesco Maggini, Due letture dantesche inedite (Inf. 22. e 32.) con altri scritti duecenteschi e trecenteschi poco noti e una bibliografia ragionata , Florence 1965 (with list of publications and appreciation by Giovanni Nencioni )

Remarks

1. ^ Membership list of the academy

Web links

• Literature by and about Francesco Maggini in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)