Luigi Castiglioni (philologist)

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Luigi Castiglioni (born September 28, 1882 in Azzate , Varese province , † February 23, 1965 in Milan ) was an Italian classical philologist specializing in Latin studies .

Castiglioni was the son of the medical officer Pietro Castiglioni and his wife Antonietta Trotti. In 1900 he won the competition for the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa . After initially studying Italian , he switched to Latin studies and received his doctorate in 1904 with a thesis on Ovid's Metamorphoses . He then completed postgraduate studies with the Graecist and papyrologist Girolamo Vitelli . After various stations in school he was captain of the mountain troops (1915–1918) during the First World War . After teaching at grammar schools in Novara and Milan after the war , he became associate professor of Latin literature at the University of Cagliari in 1925 and full professor of Latin literature at the State University of Milan in 1926 (successors to his chair were Ignazio Cazzaniga and Alberto Grilli ) . From 1931 to 1956 he was dean of the Facoltà di Lettere. From 1938 until his death he was also a co-opted member of the International Thesaurus Commission .

Castiglioni mainly worked on literary mythography (in his dissertation and in Studi alessandrini ), on Ovid , Seneca , Horace , Apuleius , Virgil and Marcus Iunianus Iustinus . In addition, he edited the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum with Carlo Pascal , a series for text-critical editions that has since expired, to which he himself contributed, among other things, an edition of Cicero 's De re publica . Together with Scevola Mariotti , he published a Latin-Italian dictionary that is still in use.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications can be found in: Studi in onore di Luigi Castiglioni. Florence 1960, Volume 1, pp. XV-XXVI.

Monographs, text editions and dictionary

  • Studi intorno alle fonti e alla composizione delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio. Pisa 1906 (dissertation).
  • Electa Annaeana. Città di Castello 1911.
  • Lisia, Orazioni scelte. Palermo 1914.
  • Studi intorno all "Storie filippiche" di Giustino. 1925, new edition 1967.
  • Aspetti e valori dell 'arte di Virgilio nell' "Eneide". SA Poligrafica degli opera, 1931.
  • De Re publica di Cicerone. Turin 1936; New edition 1947 (Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum).
  • Lezioni sulla lirica d'Orazio. Milan 1942.
  • Lezioni intorno alle Metamorfosi d'Apuleio. Milan 1943.
  • (Ed., With Remigio Sabbadini ): P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos libri XII. Recensuit Remigius Sabbadini. Editionem ad exemplum editionis Romanae (MXMXXX) emendatam curavit L. Castiglioni. In aedibus IB Paraviae, Turin 1945 (Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum)
  • (Ed.): L. Annaeani Senecae Dialogorum libri IX-X: De tranquillitate animi, De brevitate vitae. In aedibus Io. Bapt. Paraviae et Sociorum, 1946 (Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum)
  • Lezioni intorno alle Georgiche di Virgilio. Milan 1947; New edition under the title: Lezioni intorno alle Georgiche di Virgilio e altri studi. Paideia, 1983.
  • with Scevola Mariotti : Il vocabolario della lingua latina. Loescher, Turin 1966, third edition 1997.

items

  • Collectanea Graeca. In: Studi italiani di filologia classica. Volume 14, 1906, pp. 153-176; 15, 1907, pp. 342-347; 17, 1909, pp. 289–248, also Pisa 1911.
  • Studi alessandrini. I, Pisa 1907; II, In: Studi offerti a Carlo Pascal. Catania 1913, pp. 53-120.
  • De quibusdam deterioribus codicibus Senecae opuscula De ira continentibus. In: Athenaeum. Volume 1, 1913, pp. 98-111.
  • Studia Annaeana. In: Athenaeum. Volume 8, 1920, pp. 224-242.
  • Studi Anneani. In: Athenaeum. Volume 9, 1921, pp. 435-445.

literature

  • Studi in onore di Luigi Castiglioni. Florence 1960.
  • Antonio La Penna : Luigi Castiglioni. In: Belfagor Volume 18, 1962, pp. 42-68.
  • Ignazio Cazzaniga: Luigi Castiglioni. In: Rendiconti dell 'Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere (parte gen.) Volume 99, 1965, p. 7.
  • Dino Buzzati: Castiglioni. In: Corriere della Sera. February 27, 1965.
  • Ignazio Cazzaniga: Luigi Castiglioni. In: Gnomon Volume 38, 1966, pp. 106-108.
  • Alberto Grilli:  Luigi Castiglioni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22:  Castelvetro – Cavallotti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.
  • Antonio La Penna: Luigi Castiglioni. In: Letteratura italiana. I critici. Volume 4, Milan, Marzorati 1987, pp. 2525-2543.
personal data
SURNAME Castiglioni, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist (Latinist)
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Azzate , Varese
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1965
Place of death Milan