Henry Cochin
Henry Denys Benoît Marie Cochin (born January 31, 1854 in Paris , † December 9, 1926 ibid) was a French politician , Romanist , Italianist and translator .
life and work
Cochin came from a wealthy Parisian intellectual family. He completed a law degree, but also studied with Pierre de Nolhac and Émile Théodore Léon Gautier and spent his life doing research as a private scholar on Italian Renaissance literature , especially on Petrarch . As a citizen of Saint-Pierre-Brouck ( Département Nord ), where his wife lived, he became mayor there in 1889 and was a member of the Dunkirk- Land constituency from 1893 to 1914 . In 1926, shortly before his death, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .
Works
Italian Studies
- (Ed. And translator) Luigi da Porto , Giulietta et Romeo. Nouvelle . Paris 1879
- Boccace. Etudes Italiennes . Paris 1890 (Italian: Florence 1901)
- (Ed.) Un ami de Pétrarque. Lettres de Francesco Nelli à Pétrarque . Paris 1892 (Italian Florence 1901)
- La chronologie du «Canzoniere» de Pétrarque , Paris 1898
- Le Frère de Pétrarque et le livre du «Repos des religieux» . Paris 1903, Geneva 1975
- (Translator) Dante Alighieri, Vita nova . Paris 1905, 1914, 1921, 1950
- Le bienheureux Fra Giovanni Angelico de Fiesole (1387-1455) . Paris 1906
- Bibliografia degli scritti di Francesco Novati . Milan 1908
- Jubilés d'Italie . Paris 1911
- (Translator) Petrarca, Les Triomphes . Paris 1923
- (Ed. And translator) Petrarca, Les Psaumes pénitentiaux . Paris 1929 (preface by Pierre de Nolhac )
Other works
- Le Manuscrit de Monsieur C.-A.-L. Larsonnier . Paris 1881 (Charles Antoine Ludovic Larsonnier)
- (Ed., With Henry Duparc) Expulsions des congrégations religieuses. Récits et témoignages . Paris 1881
- (Ed.) Augustin Cochin (1823–1872, father), Les espérances chrétiennes . Paris 1883, 1912, 1920
- Tableaux flamands . Paris 1908
- Lamartine et la Flandre . Paris 1912
- (with Nicolas Bourgeois and André Mabille de Poncheville) Le Nord dévasté . Paris 1920
- Augustin Cochin 1823-1872. Ses lettres et sa vie . 2 volumes. Paris 1926
literature
- Henry Cochin: Les Deux guerres, 1870-1871, 1914-1917. Images et souvenirs . Paris 1917
- En souvenir de Henry Cochin . Paris 1928 (foreword by Paul Hazard )
- Pierre de Nolhac: Les Travaux d'Henry Cochin sur Pétrarque . In: Atti del Convegno petrarchesco (Atti e Memorie della R. Accademia Petrarca di scienze, lettere ed arti. New part 7, 1928)
- Léon-Honoré Labande: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Henry Cochin (1854-1926) . In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 72, 4, 1928, pp. 436–454 (with picture), accessed January 3, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Henry Cochin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Henry Cochin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cochin, Henry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cochin, Henry Denys Benoît Marie (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of the National Assembly, Romanist, Italianist and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1926 |
Place of death | Paris |