Gian-Paolo Biasin

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Gian-Paolo Biasin (born November 7, 1933 in Reggio nell'Emilia , † August 24, 1998 in Berkeley ) was an American Romance scholar, Italianist and literary scholar of Italian origin.

life and work

Biasin studied law at the University of Modena and graduated in 1956. He came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and received a Masters in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University with the thesis Four modern Italian jurists. Their legal and political concepts . Then he switched to literary studies and received his doctorate in 1964 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with the thesis Lo straniero sulle colline. Cesare Pavese (published in translation ud T. The Smile of the Gods. A Thematic Study of Cesare Pavese's Work , Ithaca, NY 1968). From 1964 to 1973 he taught at Cornell University (first as Assistant Professor, from 1967 as Associate Professor), from 1973 to 1981 as Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and finally from 1981 as Professor of Italian from the University of California at Berkeley .

Other works

  • (Translator) Hans J. Morghentau, Lo scopo della politica americana , Bologna 1962
  • Literary Diseases. Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel , Austin 1975 (Italian: Malattie letterarie , Milan 1976)
  • (Ed. With Glauco Cambon) A homage to Ugo Foscolo in the bicentennial of his birth, in: Forum Italicum 12, 1978
  • Icone italiane , Rome 1983 (English: Italian Literary Icons , Princeton, NJ 1985)
  • Il vento di Debussy. La poesia di Montale nella cultura del Novecento , Bologna 1985 (English: Montale, Debussy, and Modernism , Princeton, NJ 1989)
  • (Ed. With Albert N. Mancini and Nicolas J. Perella) Studies in the italian Renaissance. Essays in memory of Arnolfo B. Ferruolo , Naples 1985
  • (Ed. With Nicolas J. Perella) Pirandello 1986. Atti del Simposio internazionale. Università di California, Berkeley, 13-15 March 1986 , Rome 1987
  • I sapori della modernità. Cibo e romanzo , Bologna 1991 (English: The Flavors of Modernity. Food and the Novel , Princeton, NJ 1993)
  • Le periferie della letteratura. Da Verga a Tabucchi , Ravenna 1997
  • (Ed. With Manuela Gieri) Luigi Pirandello. Contemporary perspectives , Toronto 1999

literature

  • New York Times August 27, 1998
  • Special issue in memoriam of Gian-Paolo Biasin and Giovanni Cecchetti , in: Forum Italicum 33, 1999
  • Gian Paolo Biasin, Il canto delle sirene. Scritti scelti 1969-1997 , ed. by Alberto Bertoni and Mario Pelati, Sassuolo 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Biasin, Gian-Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Italianist of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio nell'Emilia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1998
Place of death Berkeley