Maria Timpanaro Cardini

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Maria Timpanaro Cardini , née Cardini, (* 1890 in Arezzo , † 1978 in Florence ) was an Italian classical philologist who dealt primarily with the history of ancient science and the history of ancient philosophy. She is the mother of the classical philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro .

Cardini acquired her laurea in Greek philology in Naples and stayed briefly in Berlin in 1914 to study with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Hermann Diels . For several years she was active as a Dadaist poet and was in contact with Tristan Tzara , among others , but gave up poetry forever from around 1920. Professionally she was always active as a high school teacher, first in Parma , where she met her husband Sebastiano Timpanaro Senior, then at a Florentine private school and finally in Pisa . After the Second World War, she became involved in local politics for the Italian Socialist Party and particularly campaigned for non-church kindergartens in Pisa. In addition, she has gained national and international recognition primarily as the editor and translator of collections of fragments on the Sophists and the Pythagoreans , of pseudo-Aristotelian texts and works by Proclus, as well as through publications on the history of science in ancient times. She also wrote the first Italian translation of Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (1943/44). Your estate is managed by the library of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa .

Works

  • I Sofisti. Frammenti e Testimonianze . Traduzione, prefazione e note. Laterza, Bari 1923 (Filosofi Antichi e Medievali).
  • Galileo Galilei: Sidereus nuncius . Traduzione con testo a fronte, prefazione e note. Sansoni, Florence 1948.
  • Pitagorici. Testimonianze e frammenti . La Nuova Italia, Florence, fasc. 1: 1958, fasc. 2: 1962, fasc. 3: 1964.
  • Il Cielo di Aristotle . In: Physis. Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza (Olschki, Florence) 6.4, 1964.
  • Pseudo-Aristotle: De lineis insecabilibus . Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Istituto editoriale cisalpino, Milano-Varese 1970 (Testi e documenti per lo studio dell 'antichità, 32).
  • Proclo: Commento al I libro degli Elementi di Euclide . Introduzione, traduzione e note. Pisa 1978.
  • Tra antichità classica e impegno civile. A cura di Sebastiano Timpanaro. ETS, Pisa 2001 (Muse Pisane, 7).

literature

  • Graziano Arrighetti : Sebastiano Timpanaro: ritratto della madre. In: Walter Lapini (ed.), Omaggio a Sebastiano Timpanaro. In: Sileno 39.1-2, 2013, pp. 3–12.
  • Sebastiano Timpanaro: Nascita di Maria Timpanaro Cardini, in: Belfagor 56.2, 2001, 198-202.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastiano Timpanaro: The genesis of Lachmann's method . Ed. and transl. by Glenn W. Most . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 2005, 1-2, Google Book Preview .
  2. ^ Marsilio Editori: Maria Timpanaro Cardini (short biography).
  3. ↑ Barbara Allegranti (Biblioteca della Scuola Normale Superiore): Archivi e collezioni speciali: Guida ai fondi archivistici e librari della Scuola Normale . - (Contains Archivio and Biblioteca by Sebastiano Timpanaro Jr with documents, notes and letters from Maria Timpanaro Cardini).
personal data
SURNAME Timpanaro Cardini, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Arezzo
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Florence