Giuseppe Rigutini

Giuseppe Rigutini (born August 29, 1829 in Lucignano ; † May 23, 1903 in Florence ) was an Italian classical philologist , Romanist , Italianist, Germanist and lexicographer .

life and work

Rigutini was a high school teacher for ancient languages ​​and came out with numerous translations. In 1866 he went to the Accademia della Crusca and until 1897 was an "Accademico bibliotecario". He worked on several lexicographical projects, including in collaboration with Pietro Fanfani and his son-in-law Oskar Bulle . He also taught at the Universities of Pisa and Florence . He was married to the translator Giulia Rigutini-Weismann. There are streets in Florence and Lucignano, and a school is named after him in Lucignano. In Lucignano in 2003 the commemorative event “L'Opera di Giuseppe Rigutini a cento anni dalla sua scomparsa (Lucignano, November 22, 2003)” took place.

Works (selection)

• with Pietro Fanfani : Vocabolario italiano della lingua parlata. Barbèra, Florence 1875 (until 1920).
• I neologismi buoni e cattivi più frequenti nell'uso odierno. Libro compilato pei giovani italiani. Verdesi, Rome 1886.
• Vocabolario Greco-Italiano e Italiano-Greco. Barbera, Florence 1889; last edited by Fritz Bornmann (1929–1998), Barbera, Florence 1954.
• Vocabolario diamante della lingua italiana. Barbera, Firenze 1895 (most recently 1948).
• with Oskar Bulle : Nuovo dizionario italiano-tedesco e tedesco italiano / New Italian-German and German-Italian dictionary. 2 volumes. Tauchnitz / Hoepli, Leipzig / Milan 1896–1900; 6th edition, 1920; Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1939; Reprint: Hoepli / Zanichelli, Milan / Bologna 1981.
• Voci e manner del parlar fiorentino. Giunte ed osservazioni al vocabolario toscano. Le Lettere, Florence 1974 (reprint, originally 1870 and 1864).
• Edited by Niccolò Tommaseo : Dizionario dei sinonimi della lingua italiana. Introduction by Aldo Borlenghi (1913–1978). Vallardi / Piccin, Milan / Padua 1984 (first 1880).

literature

• Pio Ferrieri: Per le nozze del prof. Giuseppe Rigutini colla signora Giulia Weismann. Bizzoni, Pavia 1884 (contains letters from Pio Ferrieri, GB Niccolini, Niccolò Tommaseo and Federigo Sclopis).

Web links

• Literature by and about Giuseppe Rigutini in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Standard entry in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN)
• Publications by Rigutini in the Opac des SBN
• Accademia della Crusca (note on Rigutini, Italian, with picture)
• Accademia della Crusca personal note (Italian)
• Guido Mazzoni : Rigutini, Giuseppe . In: Enciclopedia Italiana . Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1936 (Italian)
• Andrea Ciotti: Rigutini, Giuseppe . In: Enciclopedia Dantesca. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1970 (note on Rigutini's Dante research, Italian)