Guido Battelli

Guido Battelli (born September 24, 1869 in Sarzana , La Spezia province , † April 13, 1955 in Florence ) was an Italian writer.

He first studied law in Parma and Bologna, then philosophy at the University of Florence, and worked as a poet and essayist. From 1930 to 1934 he taught Italian literature at the University of Coimbra . There he met the poet Florbela Espanca , whose works he published after her death. In 1934 he returned to Italy, where he devoted himself to the translation of the work of Florbela Espanca and other Portuguese poets. He mainly published on the art and culture of Portugal, but also wrote numerous articles on Italian artists for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present .

Publications (selection)

• Luoghi romiti: S. Miniato al Tedesco – Cigoli . In: Emporium . tape 8 , no. 103 , June 1903, p. 56-74 ( artivisive.sns.it ).
• Segreti di magia in un cod. del "Tesoro" . In: Archivum Romanicum . tape 5 , no. 2 (April – June), 1921, pp. 149–172 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Florbela Espanca: Cartas de Florbela Espanca a Dona Julia Alves ea Guido Battelli . Gonçalves, Coimbra 1931, OCLC 17158229 .
• Andrea Sansovino e l'arte italiana della rinascenza in Portogallo . Seeber, Florence 1936, OCLC 2808700 .

literature

• Livia Apa: Guido Battelli e la cultura portoghese. In: L'apporto italiano alla tradizione degli studi ispanici. Atti del Congresso, 'Nel ricordo di Carmelo Samonà', Napoli, 30 gennaio-1 febbraio 1992. Instituto Cervantes, Rome 1993, pp. 171-176 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry in the Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche, Archivi di personalità. Censimento dei fondi toscani tra '800 e' 900.
• Estate in the Biblioteca comunale of San Gimignano