Francesco Torraca

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Francesco Torraca (born February 18, 1853 in Pietrapertosa , † December 15, 1938 in Naples ) was an Italian Romanist , Italianist and Medievalist .

life and work

Torraca studied in Naples with Luigi Settembrini and Francesco De Sanctis . He taught in grammar schools in Naples, was in Rome from 1880, inter alia head of cabinet in the Ministry of Education, and taught at the University of Naples from 1902 to 1928 , until 1903 comparative literature , then Italian literary history. In 1920 he was appointed senator . He did not join any parliamentary group there and was a member of the finance committee from 1929 to 1934.

Torraca was a member of the Accademia della Crusca (1914; 1923 as accademico ) and the Accademia dei Lincei (since 1923, corresponding member, from 1932 socio nazionale ). In 1903 he was elected a member of the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples. The first stage of the Order of the Crown of Italy was awarded to him in 1885, others followed in 1896 and 1917 ( grande ufficiale ). Between 1892 and 1923 he was given four degrees of the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus awarded. In 1968 a memorial was erected to him in Pietrapertosa.

Works

Dante

  • Di un commento nuovo alla Divina Commedia , Bologna 1899
    • La divina commedia nuovamente commentata , Rome 1905
    • Commento alla Divina Comedia , ed. by Valerio Marucci, 3 vols., Rome 2008
  • Studi danteschi , Naples 1912
  • Nuovi studi danteschi , Naples 1921

Sannazaro

  • Jacopo Sannazaro . Note, Naples 1879
  • Gl'imitatori stranieri di Jacopo Sannazaro, Rome 1882
  • La Materia dell'Arcadia del Sannazaro. Studio , Città di Castello 1888

More Romance studies

  • Notie su la vita e gli scritti di Luigi Settembrini , Naples 1877
  • Studi di storia letteraria napoletana , Livorno 1884
  • Saggi e rassegne , Livorno 1885
  • (Ed.) Il teatro italiano dei secoli 13th, 14th and 15th sec. XV (fine) e XVI , 2 vols., Florence 1885–1886
  • Manuale della letteratura italiana ad uso delle scuole secondarie , 3 vols., Florence 1886–1889
  • Discussioni e ricerche letterarie , Livorno 1888
  • (Ed.) Poemetti mitologici de 'secoli XIV, XV e XVI , Livorno 1888
  • Rassegna della letteratura italiana , Rome 1890
  • Nuove rassegne , Livorno 1894
  • Le donne italiane nella poesia provencal , Florence 1900
  • Studi sulla lirica italiana del Duecento , Bologna 1902
  • Per la biografia di Giovanni Boccaccio . Appunti , Milan 1912
  • Studi di storia letteraria , Florence 1923

literature

  • Dante e la cultura sveva . Atti del convegno di studi tenuto a Melfi in collaborazione con la Biblioteca Provinciale di Potenza, 2 - 5 November 1969. Omaggio a Francesco Torraca, Florence 1970
  • Nicola D'Antuono, Francesco Torraca , Salerno 1989
  • Rossana Melis, La bella stagione del Verga. Francesco Torraca ei primi critici verghiani (1875-1885) , Catania 1990
  • Mario Santoro and Lucia Miele, Due maestri dell'Ateneo napoletano: Francesco Torraca e Giuseppe Toffanin , Naples 1990
  • D'Ancona-Torraca, ed. by Maria Teresa Imbriani, Pisa 2003 (correspondence with Alessandro D'Ancona )
  • Amedeo Benedetti, Francesco Torraca nelle lettere agli amici letterati, in: Esperienze Letterarie 39, 2014, pp. 43–74

Remarks

  1. ^ Membership catalog of the Crusca

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personal data
SURNAME Torraca, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist, Italianist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Pietrapertosa
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1938
Place of death Naples