Giovanni Maria Bertini

Giovanni Maria Bertini (born November 2, 1900 in Barcelona , † January 23, 1995 in Turin ) was an Italian cleric, Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Bertini studied in Turin and was ordained a priest there. From 1938 to 1975 (as the successor to Lucio Ambruzzi ) he was professor of Spanish at the University of Turin (initially also at the University of Venice ). In 1946 he founded the magazine Quaderni Ibero-Americani .

Bertini was a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona .

Bertini also published under the pseudonym Tullio Masserano. He should not be confused with the philosophy professor of the same name Giovanni Maria Bertini (1818–1876).

Works

(Ed.) Santa Teresa di Avila , Turin 1828
(Ed.) Cervantes, Novelle esemplari , Turin 1931
La rivoluzione spagnuola , Milan 1933
(Ed.) Tirso de Molina, El Condenado por desconfiado , Turin 1938
Studi e ricerche ispaniche , Milan 1939
Fiore di romance spagnole , Modena 1939, 1946
Contributo a un repertorio bibliografico italiano di letteratura spagnuola 1890-1940 , Florence 1941
(Ed.) Antologia di poeti spagnoli contemporanei , Turin 1943
(Ed.) Poetry spagnole del Seicento , Turin 1946
(Ed. And translator) S. Giovanni della Croce, Poetry , Milan 1952
(Ed. And translator) Ángel Valbuena Prat , Storia della letteratura spagnola , Turin 1961
(Ed.) Leo Spitzer , Cinque saggi di ispanistica , Turin 1962
(Ed.) Fray Gracián de la Madre de Dios, Peregrinación de Anastasio , Barcelona 1966
(with C. Acutis) La Romanza spagnola in Italia , Turin 1970
(Ed.) Testi rinascimentali di spiritualità spagnoli e italiani , Turin 1970
(Ed.) Testi spagnoli del secolo XV , 1950 Turin 1971
Studi di ispanistica , Turin 1973
(with Maria Assunta Pelazza) Ensayos de literatura espiritual comparada hispano-italiana. Siglos XV-XVII , Turin 1980

literature

Polvo enamorado. Poetry e studi offerti a Giovanni M. Bertini , ed. by Giancarlo Depretis, Milan 1989
Elvio Grossi, Da Tito Maria Cucchi a Giovanni Bertini. Il movimento cattolico senigalliese e il contesto politico nazionale , Fabriano 1998
Giuseppe Tuninetti, Giuseppe Pollarolo , Soveria Mannelli 2004, p. 218 A 8

Web links

http://www.quaderniberoamericani.org/our-history (founded by Bertini)
http://www.quaderniberoamericani.org/doc/QIA_HISTORY.pdf (Giuliano Soria, The “Quaderni Ibero-Americani”, in: Quaderni Ibero-Americani 100, 2006, note 2)

personal data
SURNAME	Bertini, Giovanni Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Masserano, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cleric, Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1995
Place of death	Turin