Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo
Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo (born January 24, 1860 in Messina , † May 7, 1937 in Palermo ) was an Italian writer, Romanist and Italianist.
life and work
Cesareo (emphasis: Cesàreo ) studied in Messina and from 1883 in Rome (with Ernesto Monaci ). He wrote for newspapers and used a stay as a correspondent in Germany to study with Wendelin Foerster in Bonn .
In 1894 he completed his habilitation in Rome and in 1898 occupied the chair for Italian literature at the University of Palermo , which he held as the successor to Giovanni Mestica until his retirement in 1935. In 1922 he read about Dante's Divine Comedy at the Collège de France . In 1922 he read about Dante's Divine Comedy at the Collège de France .
Cesareo was extensively active as a writer. His poems were set to music by Francesco Paolo Tosti .
Cesareo was a senator appointed by the king (1924) and a member of the Accademia della Crusca .
Works
- Saggi di critica , Ancona 1884
- (Ed.) Poesie e lettere edite ed inedite di Salvator Rosa , Naples 1892
- Nuove ricerche su la vita e le opere di Giacomo Leopardi , Turin / Rome 1893
- La poesia siciliana sotto gli Svevi. Studi e ricerche , Catania 1894, Milan 1924
- Su le "Poetry volgari" del Petrarca , Rocca San Casciano 1898
- Conversazioni letterarie , Catania 1899
- Le origini della poesia lirica in Italia , Catania 1899
- La vita di Giacomo Leopardi , Milan / Palermo 1902
- Critica militante , Messina 1907
- Storia della letteratura italiana a uso delle scuole , Messina 1908 (numerous editions)
- La poesia di Giovanni Pascoli . Discorso , Bologna 1912
- (Ed.) Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova , Messina 1914
- Saggio su l'arte creatrice , Bologna 1919
- Francesco Petrarch . La vita , Messina 1920
- Gaspara Stampa. Donna e poetessa , Naples 1920
- Storia delle teorie estetiche in Italia dal Medio Evo ai giorni nostri , Bologna 1924
- La vita e l'arte di Giovanni Meli , Palermo 1924
- Studi e ricerche su la letteratura italiana , Palermo 1930
- Leopardi poeta d'amore , Palermo 1937
Fiction and translation work (selection)
- Don Juan , Catania 1883
- Avventure eroiche e galanti. Novella , Turin 1887
- Legend e fantasy , Rome 1893, ed. by Giuseppe Rando, Messina 2008
- Teatro mediterraneo. La mafia. La morta , Catania 1921
- (Translator) Molière, L'avaro , Messina 1924
- (Translator) Euripides, Ippolito , Palermo 1936
literature
- Francesco Muzzioli: CESAREO, Giovanni Alfredo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 24: Cerreto – Chini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1980.
- Studi critici in onore di GA Cesareo , Palermo 1924
- [Obituary, Italian], in: Studi di filologia italiana 5, 1938, pp. 95-102
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Cesareo, Giovanni Alfredo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
- Entry in the Senatori dell'Italia fascista database of the Historical Archives of the Italian Senate
- Publications by GA Cesareo in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN)
- Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN
- Information on Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cesareo, Giovanni Alfredo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer, Romanist and Italianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Messina |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1937 |
| Place of death | Palermo |