Luciana Stegagno-Picchio

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Luciana Stegagno-Picchio (born April 26, 1920 in Alessandria , † August 28, 2008 in Rome ) was an Italian Romanist , Lusitanist , Brazilianist , translator and literary scholar.

life and work

Luciana Picchio studied Classical Philology and Archeology at the University of Turin and La Sapienza University in Rome (graduated in 1942). She added a degree in Portuguese. In 1944 she married the doctor Giannantonio Stegagno. In 1956 she became a university assistant. Then she taught Portuguese, from 1959 to 1968 at the University of Pisa and from 1969 at the University of Rome. She was founding editor of the magazine Quaderni portoghesi (1977-1984) and co-editor of the magazine Letteratura d'America .

Luciana Stegagno-Picchio was a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (2000) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Lisbon (1997/1998).

Works

  • Storia del teatro portoghese , Rome 1964 (Portuguese, Lisbon 1969)
  • Profilo storico della letteratura drammatica portoghese , Milan 1967
  • Ricerche sul teatro portoghese , Rome 1969
  • La letteratura brasiliana , Florence 1972 (696 pages); Turin 1997 (751 pages)
    • (Romanian) Literatura braziliana , Bucharest 1986 (692 pages)
    • (Portuguese) História da literatura brasileira , Rio de Janeiro 1997, 2004 (743 pages)
    • (Czech) Dějiny brazilské literatury , Prague 2007 (693 pages)
  • A lição do texto. Filologia e literatura. 1. Idade média , Lisbon 1979
  • La littérature brésilienne , Paris 1981, 1996 (Que sais-je? 1894)
    • Literatura brasileira. The origens a 1945 , São Paulo 1988
  • La méthode philologique. Ecrits on the literature of portugaise. I. La poésie. II. La prose et le théâtre , 2 vols., Paris 1982 (preface by Roman Jakobson )
  • Profilo della letteratura brasiliana , Rome 1992
  • La terra dei lotofagi. Poetry con note , Milan 1993
  • Mar aberto. Viagens dos portugueses , Lisbon 1999
  • José Saramago. Istantanee per un ritratto , Florence 2000
  • Nel segno di Orfeo. Fernando Pessoa e l'avanguardia portoghese , Genoa 2004
  • Breve storia della letteratura brasiliana , Genoa 2005

Editorial activity

  • (Ed.) Antologia della poesia portoghese e brasiliana , Rome 2004

Editing of works by Murilo Mendes , Fernando Pessoa , José Saramago , Jorge Amado and Jorge de Sena, among others .

literature

  • A lingua outra , ed. by Alessandra Mauro, Lisbon 1956, 2001
    • La lingua altra. Una autobiografia in forma di intervista , Pomezia 2008
  • Estudos portugueses. Homenagem a Luciana Stegagno Picchio , Lisbon 1991
  • Luciana Stegagno Picchio dal 1951 al 1993 , ed. by Guia Boni and Rita Desti, Naples 1994 (list of publications)
  • E vós, Tágides minhas. Miscellanea in onore di Luciana Stegagno Picchio , ed. by Maria José de Lancastre, Silvano Peloso and Ugo Serani, Viareggio 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Stegagno-Picchio, Luciana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romance and Lusitanist, Brazilianist, translator and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Alessandria
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2008
Place of death Rome