Giovanni Mestica
Giovanni Mestica (born December 27, 1831 in Apiro , † June 23, 1903 in Rome ) was an Italian politician, Romanist and Italianist.
life and work
Mestica attended high school in Pesaro . Then he taught in Apiro, Tolentino , Cingoli and Jesi . In 1881 he received two appointments, one for the chair of Latin in Pavia (which he refused), the other for the chair of Italian literature in Palermo (which he accepted). Mestica took up residence in Rome and also made a career in the Ministry of Education. From 1890 he was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies .
Mestica was a member of the Accademia della Crusca . The theater in Apiro has been named after him since 1907.
Works
Leopardi
- (Ed.) Giacomo Leopardi , Paralipomeni canti e versioni , Florence 1875
- La conversione letteraria di G. Leopardi e la sua cantica giovanile , Rome 1880 (November 15, 1880)
- (Ed.) Le poesie di Giacomo Leopardi , Florence 1886, 1888, 1892, 1897, 1900, 1905, 1909, 1919
- (Ed.) Scritti letterari di Giacomo Leopardi , 2 vols., Florence 1899, 1924
- (Ed.) Le prose originali di Giacomo Leopardi , Florence 1890
- Studi leopardiani , Florence 1901, ed. by Franco Foschi, Ancona 2000
Other works
- Istituzioni di letteratura , 2 vols., Florence 1874–1875, Turin 1904 (textbook)
- Traiano Boccalini e la letteratura critica e politica del Seicento , Florence 1878
- Scritti latini giovanili , Florence 1879
- San Francesco, Dante e Giotto , Rome 1881 (in: Nuova Antologia), Macerata 1927
- Manuale della letteratura italiana nel secolo XIX , 2 vols., Rome 1882–1887
- (Ed.) Lettere amorose di Ugo Foscolo ad Antonietta Fagnani , Florence 1884, 1928
- (Ed.) Le poesie di Ugo Foscolo , 2 vols., Florence 1884
- (Ed.) Le poesie di Alessandro Manzoni , Florence 1888, 1890, 1899, 1920
- (Ed.) Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca , Florence 1896
literature
- Marco Severini: MESTICA, Giovanni. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 74: Messi – Miraglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2010, Date of birth: 1831.
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Mestica in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati
- http://www.comune.apiro.mc.it/wp-content/blogs.dir/23/FileStore/pubblicazioni/LibroTeatro.pdf (description of the Teatro Giovanni Mestica, Italian, with a short biography and date of birth 1831)
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mestica, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, Romanist and Italianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Apiro |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1903 |
| Place of death | Rome |