Franco Simone

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Franco Simone (born February 15, 1913 in Poirino , † November 13, 1976 in Turin ) was an Italian Romance scholar , French scholar and Renaissance specialist .

life and work

From 1951 Simone was professor of French in Messina , then in Genoa , and finally from 1956 until his death at the University of Turin . With Louis Terreaux he founded the Center d'études franco-italien / Centra di Studi Franco-Italiano of the Universities of Turin and Savoy , which enables a Franco-Italian degree. Simone was the founding editor of Studi Francesi magazine (1957).

Works

  • (Ed.) Pierre de Ronsard , Les amours , Milan, Istituto editoriale italiano, 1947.
  • La coscienza della rinascita negli umanisti francesi , Rome, Storia e letteratura, 1949; New York, E Book, 2005.
  • Il Rinascimento francese. Studi e ricerche , Turin, SEI, 1961, 1965.
    • (Partial translation) The French Renaissance. Medieval tradition and Italian influence in shaping the Renaissance in France , London, Macmillan, 1969.
  • (Ed. With Glauco Natoli and Arnaldo Pizzorusso ) Studi in onore di Carlo Pellegrini , Turin, SEI, 1963.
  • (Ed. With Lionello Sozzi ) Arts et métiers de France , Messina / Florenz, D'Anna, 1964.
  • Il pensiero francese del Rinascimento , Milan, Marzorati, 1964.
  • (Ed.) Honoré de Balzac , Les paysans , Turin, Fogola, 1965.
  • (Ed.) Gustave Flaubert , La tentation de Saint Antoine (Rome), Turin, Fogola, 1966.
  • (Ed.) Miscellanea di studi e ricerche sul Quattrocento francese , Turin, Giappichelli, 1967.
  • Umanesimo, Rinascimento, Barocco in Francia , Milan, Mursia, 1968.
  • (Ed.) Dizionario critico della letteratura francese , 2 vols., Turin, Utet, 1972.
  • (Ed.) Culture et politique en France à l'époque de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance , Turin, Accademia delle Scienze, 1974.
  • Anni di giornalismo , Geneva, Slatkine, 1987.

literature

  • Ricordo di Franco Simone, in: Studi francesi 20, 60, 1976.
  • Mélanges à Franco Simone , Paris, Didier, 1977.
  • Travaux récents sur le XVIIe siècle. Actes du 8ème Colloque de Marseille (Janvier 1978) , Marseille 1979 (dedicated to the memory of Franco Simone).
  • Mélanges à la mémoire de Franco Simone , 4 vols., Geneva, Slatkine, 1980–1984.
  • L'aube de la Renaissance. Pour le dixième anniversaire de la disparition de Franco Simone , ed. by Louis Terreaux, Dario Cecchetti and Lionello Sozzi, Geneva, Slatkine, 1991 (commemorative publication Franco Simone).
  • Dynamique d'une expansion culturelle. Pétrarque en Europe, XIVe-XXe siècle. Actes du XXVIe congrès international du CEFI, Turin et Chambéry, December 11-15, 1995 à la mémoire de Franco Simone , ed. by Pierre Blanc, Paris, Champion, 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Simone, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist, Frenchist and Renaissance specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Poirino
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1976
Place of death Turin