Napoleone Caix

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Napoleone Caix (born August 17, 1845 in Bozzolo , † October 22, 1882 there ) was an Italian Romance studies .

life and work

Caix was a student of Gaetano Trezza (1828-1892) at the grammar school in Cremona . From 1862 he studied Greek, Latin, English, German, Sanskrit, Arabic and Hebrew in Pisa and was then a grammar school teacher for Latin and Greek in Parma . In 1882 he was appointed to a chair for Romance Philology in Florence , but died before his lectures began. He was followed by Pio Rajna .

Works

  • Saggio sulla storia della lingua e dei dialetti d'Italia. Con un'introduzione sopra l'origine delle lingue neolatine, Parma 1872
  • Studi di etimologia italiana e romanza. Osservazioni ed aggiunte al Vocabolario etimologico delle lingue romanze di Friedrich Diez , Florence 1878
  • Le origini della lingua poetica italiana. Principii di grammatica storica italiana ricavati dallo studio dei manoscritti, con una introduzione sulla formazione degli antichi canzonieri italiani, Florence 1880

literature

  • Miscellanea di filologia e linguistica in memoria di Napoleone Caix e Ugo Angelo Canello, Florence 1886
personal data
SURNAME Caix, Napoleone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Bozzolo
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1882
Place of death Bozzolo