Giuseppe Billanovich

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Giuseppe Billanovich (born August 6, 1913 in Cittadella , † February 2, 2000 in Padua ) was an Italian Romanist , Italianist, Latinist and Medievalist.

life and work

Billanovich went to school in Verona and Padua, studied in Padua from 1930 to 1934, graduated with a thesis on Roman history and became a high school teacher, but at the same time did postgraduate studies in philology. In 1939 Giovanni Gentile appointed him to edit the works of Petrarch , where he took over two Latin texts ( Itinerarium , manuscript lost by bombing, and Rerum memorandarum libri , published 1945). From 1941 Billanovich fought on the Eastern Front.

From 1945 to 1948 Billanovich taught Italian literature at the University of Naples . From 1948 to 1950 he conducted research at the Warburg Institute in London. From 1950 to 1955 he was Gianfranco Contini's successor Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Friborg . Finally, from 1955 to 1988, he occupied the newly created professorship for medieval and humanistic philology at the University of Milan .

Together with his brother Guido Billanovich he founded the publishing house Antenore in Padua in 1958 with the series “Medioevo e Umanesimo”, the magazine Italia medievale e umanistica , which he published together with Carlo Dionisotti , Augusto Campana and Paolo Sambin , and from 1984 the magazine Studi petrarcheschi .

In 1965 Billanovich was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in the humanities category. As a literary critic, he was invited several times to Capuchin monastery Bigorio near Tesserete by Giovanni Pozzi for intensive discussions. In 1971 he was admitted to the British Academy as a corresponding member .

Fonts (selection)

  • Un nuovo Folengo. Conclusione del mito di Merlino. In: Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti. Vol. 97, No. 2, 1937/1938, ZDB -ID 767431-4 , pp. 366-481.
  • Restauri boccacceschi (= Storia e letteratura. Raccolta di studi e testi. 8, ZDB -ID 847362-6 ). Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1945, (Ristampa. Ibid. 1947).
  • Suggestioni di cultura e d'arte tra il Petrarca e il Boccaccio. R. Pironti & figli, Naples 1946.
  • Gli inizi della fortuna di Francesco Petrarca. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1947.
  • Petrarch letterato. Volume 1: Lo scrittoio del Petrarca (= Storia e letteratura. Raccolta di studi e testi. 16). Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1947, (Ristampa anastatica. Ibid 1995).
  • Prime ricerche dantesche. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1947.
  • Tra don Teofilo Folengo e Merlin Cocaio. R. Pironti & figli, Naples 1948.
  • Un nuovo esempio delle scoperte e delle letture del Petrarca L '"Eusebio-Girolamo-Pseudo Prospero" (= writings and lectures of the Petrarca Institute Cologne. 3, ISSN  0531-0210 ). Scherpe, Krefeld 1954.
  • The tradizione del testo di Livio e le origini dell'Umanesimo. Antenore, Padua 1981;
    • Volume 1, Part 1: Tradizione e fortuna di Livio tra Medioevo e umanesimo (= Studi sul Petrarca. 9, ZDB -ID 194858-1 );
    • Volume 2: Il Livio del Petrarca e del Valla. British Library, Harleian 2493 riprodotto integralmente (= Studi sul Petrarca. 11).
  • as editor: La Biblioteca di Pomposa. Pomposia monasterium modo in Italia primum (= Medioevo e umanesimo. 86, ZDB -ID 416146-4 ). Antenore, Padua 1994.
  • Petrarca e il primo umanesimo (= Studi sul Petrarca. 25). Antenore, Padua 1996.
  • as editor with Giuseppe Frasso: Petrarca, Verona e l'Europa. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi. (Verona, 19-23 sett. 1991) (= Studi sul Petrarca. 26). Antenore, Padua 1997.
  • Dal medioevo all'umanesimo. La riscoperta dei classici (= Humanae litterae. 1). Edited by Paolo Pellegrini. CUSL, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-8132-117-3 .
  • Itinera. Vicende di libri e di testi (= Studi e testi del Rinascimento europeo. 21-22). Published by Mariarosa Cortesi. 2 volumes. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2004, ISBN 88-8498-079-8 (vol. 1), ISBN 88-8498-175-1 (vol. 2).
  • Lezioni di filologia petrarchesca (= Medioevo europeo. Ritratti. 2, ZDB -ID 2655696-0 ). Edited by Domenico Losappio. Centro di Studi EA Cicogna, Venice 2008.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Billanovich, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist, Italianist, Latinist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Cittadella
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2000
Place of death Padua