Francesco Novati

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Francesco Novati (born January 11, 1859 in Cremona , † December 27, 1915 in Sanremo ) was an Italian Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Novati studied in Pisa with Alessandro D'Ancona . He taught Romance philology in Milan at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria (1883–1886), Palermo (1886–1889), Genoa (1889–1890) and (as a full professor) again in Milan (1890–1915).

In 1883 he founded the journal Giornale storico della letteratura italiana with Arturo Graf and Rodolfo Renier , and in 1904 with Rodolfo Renier the journal Studi medievali .

Works

  • La giovinezza di Coluccio Salutati 1331-1353. Turin 1888
  • Saggi critici e letterari. Turin 1889
  • (Ed.) Epistolario di Coluccio Salutati. 4 volumes, Rome 1891–1911
  • (Ed.) La "Navigatio Sancti Brendani" in antico veneziano. Bergamo 1896, Bologna 1973
  • The influence of the pensiero latino sopra la civiltà italiana del medio evo. Milano, Hoepli, 1897, 1899
  • Indagini e postille dantesche. Bologna 1899
  • Le origini. Milan 1900 (Storia letteraria d'Italia); ed. and edited by Angelo Monteverdi , 1926
  • Attraverso il Medio Evo. Studi e ricerche. Bari 1905
  • A ricolta. Studi e profili. Bergamo 1907
  • Stendhal e l'anima italiana. Milan 1915

literature

  • Alessandro Sepulcri and Henry Cochin : Bibliografia degli scritti di Francesco Novati (1878–1908). Milan 1909 (with picture)
  • Francesco Novati. Milan 1917 (memorial, with list of publications)
  • Alessandro D'Ancona: Carteggio D'Ancona 7-9, D'Ancona - Novati. 3 volumes, ed. by Lida Maria Gonelli, Pisa 1986–1988
  • Un 'amicizia petrarchesca. Carteggio Nolhac-Novati. ed. by Alberto Brambilla, Padua 1988 (correspondence with Pierre de Nolhac )
  • Pio Rajna and Francesco Novati: Carteggio (1878–1915). Tra filologia romanza e mediolatina. ed. by Guido Lucchini, Milan 1994 (correspondence with Pio Rajna)
  • Carteggio Croce-Novati. ed. by Alberto Brambilla, Napoli 1999 (exchange of letters with Benedetto Croce )
  • Amedeo Benedetti: Contributo alla biografia di Francesco Novati. In: Forum italicum. Volume 46, 2012, pp. 253-305
  • Amadeo Benedetti:  NOVATI, Francesco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 78. Rome 2013, pp. 797-799.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthday according to the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Volume 78, 2013, p. 797). Other sources also give January 10, 1859.
personal data
SURNAME Novati, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venecone, Iro da (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1915
Place of death Sanremo