Giovanni Ponte

Giovanni Ponte (born August 14, 1929 in Campo Ligure , † March 28, 2003 ) was an Italian Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Ponte was a student of Walter Binni and for 30 years professor of Italian literary history at the University of Genoa . He was killed in a traffic accident.

Ponte was co-editor of La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana magazine and a board member of Albertiana magazine .

In 2006 a memorial colloquium took place in Campo Ligure , “Giornata di studi in onore di Giovanni Ponte”. In Campo Ligure, the city library is named after him.

Works

Attorno al Savonarola. Castellano Castellani e la sacra rappresentazione in Firenze tra '400 e' 500 , Genoa 1969
La personalità e l'opera del Boiardo , Genoa 1972
Leonardo prosatore , Genoa 1976
Leon Battista Alberti . Umanista e scrittore , Genoa 1981, 1991
Studi sul Rinascimento. Petrarch. Leonardo. Ariosto , Naples 1994
La letteratura in Liguria dal 1396 al 1528. Storia e antologia , Genoa 2000
(with Massimo Calissano) Vocabolario del dialetto di Campo Ligure , Genoa 2004

Editorial activity

Il Quattrocento , Bologna 1966 (Classici italiani 6)
Sacre rappresentazioni fiorentine del Quattrocento , Milan 1974
Francesco Petrarca , Rime sparse. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta , Milan 1979
Luciano Rossi (1683-1754), Carmina macaronica , 3 vols., Genoa 1984-1985
Leon Battista Alberti, Profugiorum from erumna libri , Genoa 1988
Bilancio della letteratura del Novecento in Liguria. Atti del convegno Genova, 4-5 maggio 2001 , Genoa 2002

literature

Giovanni Ponte, Storia e scrittori in Liguria (secoli XV-XX) , Genoa 2000 (commemorative publication with list of publications)
Silvana Medini Damonte, Giovanni Ponte, in: Albertiana 7, 2004, pp. 3–22 (with list of publications)
Atti della giornata di studi in onore di Giovanni Ponte. Campo Ligure, September 30, 2006 , ed. by Massimo Calissano, Campo Ligure 2008

Web links

Literature by and about Giovanni Ponte in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
http://www.lancora.com/06/2006-10-01/art_vs_01.html (on the memorial colloquium in Campo Ligure 2006, Italian)
http://prono.provincia.genova.it/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=7813 (on the memorial colloquium in Campo Ligure 2006, Italian)
http://www.lancora.com/09/2009-03-29/art_vs_01.html (display of the files of the memorial colloquium 2006, Italian)

personal data
SURNAME	Ponte, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Campo Ligure
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 2003