Francesco Orlando

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Francesco Orlando (born July 2, 1934 in Palermo , † June 22, 2010 in Pisa ) was an Italian author, Romanist , Italianist , French scholar and literary theorist .

life and work

Orlando studied law in Palermo from 1951 and literature from 1955. From 1953 to 1957 he was a private student of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , who had a lasting impact on him. In 1957 he was recommended by his relative, the Hispanist Carmelo Samonà , to the French artist Arnaldo Pizzorusso of the University of Pisa , from whom he received his doctorate with a thesis on Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827). From 1959 to 1960 he studied in Paris. From 1961 he taught at the University of Pisa, where he taught from 1967 as a professor of French literature, from 1970 at the University of Naples , from 1975 at the University of Venice and finally from 1981 back in Pisa. From 1995 to 2006 he held the first Italian chair for literary theory there . The focus of his method lay in the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud , which he had met early on from his student Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee , the wife of Tomasi de Lampedusa.

Works

  • L'opera di Louis Ramond , Milan 1960
    • L'histoire des montagnes et l'harmonie du monde chez Ramond de Carbonnières, in: Des "passeurs" entre science, histoire et littérature. Contribution à l'étude de la construction des savoirs, 1750-1840 , ed. by Gilles Bertrand and Alain Guyot, Grenoble 2011
  • Rotrou . Dalla tragicommedia alla tragedia , Turin 1963
  • Per una teoria freudiana della letteratura , Turin 1965, 1973, 1987, 1992
    • Toward a Freudian Theory of Literature , Baltimore 1978
  • Infanzia. Memoria e storia da Rousseau ai romantici , Padua 1966, Pisa 2007
  • Lettura freudiana della "Phèdre" , Turin 1971, 1980, 1990
    • Lecture freudienne de “Phèdre” , Paris 1986
  • Lettura freudiana del "Misanthrope" e due scritti teorici , Turin 1979
    • Due letture freudiane: "Fedra" e "Il misantropo" , Turin 1990
  • Introduzione a Sigmund Freud. Il motto di spirito e la sua relazione con l'inconscio , Turin 1975
  • Illuminismo e retorica freudiana , Turin 1982; 1997 (ud T. Illuminismo, barocco e retorica freudiana )
  • Le costanti e le varianti. Studi di letteratura francese e di teatro musicale , Bologna 1983
  • Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura: rovine, reliquie, rarità, robaccia, luoghi inabitati e tesori nascosti , Turin 1993, 1994
    • Obsolete objects in the literary imagination , New Haven 2006
    • Les objets désuets dans l'imagination littéraire , Paris 2010
  • L'altro che è in noi. Arte e nazionalità , Turin 1996
  • L'intimità e la storia. Lettura del "Gattopardo" , Turin 1998
    • L'Intimité et l'Histoire. Lecture du Guépard , Paris 2014
  • (Ed.) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Cento anni dalla nascita. Quaranta dal Gattopardo, Palermo, Palazzo Chiaramonte detto Steri, December 12-14, 1996 , Palermo 1999
  • (Ed.) Carmelo Samonà, Fratelli e tutta l'opera narrativa , Milan 2002

Own poetry and prose

  • The forest is tutta del sole. 1949–1954, Palermo 1954 (poetry)
  • Ricordo di Lampedusa , Milan 1963, 1985, Turin 2001 (memories of Tomasi de Lampedusa)
    • Un souvenir de Lampedusa , Paris 1996
    • Recuerdo de Lampedusa , Valencia 2006
  • La doppia seduzione , Turin 2010 (novel, first version 1956)

literature

  • Per Francesco Orlando. Testimonianze e ricordi , ed. by Davide Ragone, Pisa 2012
  • Be lezioni per Francesco Orlando. Teoria ed ermeneutica della letteratura , Pisa 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Orlando, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, Romanist, Italianist, Frenchist and literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2010
Place of death Pisa