Maurice Mignon

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Maurice Mignon (born August 9, 1882 in Prémery , Département Nièvre , † September 3, 1962 in Nice ) was a French Romanist and Italianist .

life and work

Mignon attended schools in Clamecy and Nevers . He graduated from the École normal supérieure and in 1906 passed the Agrégation in Italian. He taught Italian literature at the Universities of Lyon (1908–1913) and Grenoble (from 1921). In between he did military service and was attaché at the French embassy in Rome. From 1923 he taught southern European literature as Maître de conférences at the University of Aix-en-Provence . Mignon was (under the administrator Paul Valéry ) until his death the first director of the Center universitaire méditerranéen (CUM) founded in Nice in 1933, from which the University of Nice emerged in 1965 . In 1941 he founded the l'Institut d'Etudes Littéraires at the CUM.

Mignon owned a castle in Pressures near Clamecy.

Mignon was an officer in the Legion of Honor and an honorary doctorate from the University of Padua .

Works

Authorship

  • Études de littérature italienne (Catherine de Sienne. Les lettres et les arts à Florence. La comédie italienne de la Renaissance. Carlo Goldoni. Musset et l'Italie. Giosuè Carducci. Giovanni Pascoli), Paris 1912
  • Jules Renard. L'écrivain. L'auteur dramatique. L'apôtre , Moulins 1913
  • Marc Sauzay [pseudonym], Spectacles dans un fauteuil. Notes de théâtre , Paris 1913 (preface by Jean Richepin )
  • Etudes sur le théâtre français et Italien de la Renaissance , Paris 1923, Geneva 1975 (preface by Francesco Flamini )
  • Les affinités intellectuelles de l'Italie et de la France . La culture Italienne en France. Léonard de Vinci. L'italianisme de Marguerite de Navarre. J.-J. Rousseau et l'Italie. La culture dantesque en France. Le génie latin. Un poète d'aujourd'hui: Giovanni Marradi, Paris 1923
  • Littérature italienne chrétienne , Paris 1935
  • Études de littérature nivernaise . Tixier de Ravisy. Augustin Berthier. Adam Billaut. Cotignon de la Charnaye. Jules Renard, Gap 1946

Editor and translator activity

  • (Ed.) Adam Billaut, Choix de poésies , Moulins 1921
  • (Ed.) Mélanges sur Dante , Rome 1924, 1931
  • (Ed.) Molière , Rome 1924, 1931
  • (Ed. And translator) Aulus Gellius , Les Nuits attiques , 3 vols., Paris 1934
  • (Ed. And translator) Seneca, Tragédies , Paris 1935–1937

literature

  • Les Niçois dans l'histoire , ed. by Michel Derlange, Toulouse 1988 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Mignon, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauzay, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Prémery
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1962
Place of death Nice