Giuseppe Zamboni (Romanist)

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Giuseppe Zamboni (born June 28, 1903 in Saint Petersburg , † December 10, 1986 ) was an Italian Germanist and Italianist .

life and work

Giuseppe Zamboni (not to be confused with the philosopher of the same name, 1875–1950), had a German mother and studied German in Florence (doctorate 1927 on Barthold Heinrich Brockes , in: Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 90, 1930– 1931, pp. 879-945). In 1936 he became a guest lecturer for Italian in Leipzig , from 1940 professor. In 1943 he became cultural advisor at the embassy of the Italian Social Republic in Berlin. After the war, he taught at the Scuola Normale di Pisa until 1949, then went to Basel as a lecturer , where he became a full professor of Italian literature in 1962. Zamboni left 8000 volumes for the Romanesque Seminary in Basel.

Works (selection)

  • Goethe. Preface by Enzo Borrelli. Florence 1933, 1942.
  • Problemi nietzscheani nella Germania attuale. Bologna 1935.
  • (Ed.) Poeti tedeschi contemporanei. Leipzig 1939.
  • (Translator) Benedetto Croce : Europe and Germany. Confessions and reflections. Bern 1946.
  • (Ed.) Ognuno. Il dramma della morte del ricco, rinnovata da Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Florence 1946.
  • (Translator) Eugenio Garin : The Italian Humanism. Bern 1947.
  • Appunti del Corso di letteratura francese. Universita di Pisa. Anno accademico 1946–47, 1947–48, (1948–49, edited by Ezio Benedetti), Pisa 1947, 1948, 1949.
  • (Ed. With Sergio Baldi and Carlo Pellegrini) Antologia delle letterature straniere. 2 volumes. Messina / Florence 1947–1948; 1953.
  • The Italian romance. Your engagement with tradition. Krefeld 1953.
  • (Translator) Walther von der Vogelweide : Poetry. Introduzione, traduzione e note. Florence 1963.
  • Michelangelo as a poet. Basel 1965.

literature

  • Katharina Strub-Tanner: Integration of Giuseppe Zamboni's library into the Italian department of the Romance Department at the University of Basel. "Fondo Zamboni" location catalog. Basel 1996.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 469, 728.

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personal data
SURNAME Zamboni, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Germanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1986