Natalino Sapegno

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Natalino Sapegno (born November 10, 1901 in Aosta , † April 11, 1990 in Rome ) was an Italian Romance scholar , Italianist and literary scholar.

life and work

Sapegno studied from 1918 to 1922 at the University of Turin (graduated with a PhD thesis Jacopone da Todi , published by T. Frate Jacopone , Turin 1926, 2001). He taught first in Aosta, from 1924 in Ferrara . In 1930 he completed his habilitation in Bologna and taught in Padua , from 1935 as a representative of Giovanni Bertacchi's chair . In 1936 he was appointed to a chair in Palermo , then from 1937 to 1972 (as successor to Vittorio Rossi ) he was professor of Italian literature at the La Sapienza University in Rome. In June 1942 he gave a lecture on Dante Alighieri in Weimar . In 1957 he resigned from the Italian Communist Party . In 1966 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . A plaque commemorates him in Aosta.

Works (selection)

His activity as editor of numerous classics of Italian literature is not listed.

  • (Ed.) Thomas von Aquin , Opuscoli filosofici , Lanciano 1924, 2011
  • Frate Jacopone , Turin 1926, 2001
  • Il Trecento , Milan 1934, 12th edition 1981
  • Compendio di Storia della Letteratura Italiana , 3 vols., Florence 1936–1946, editions until 1989
  • Poeti minori del Trecento , Milan / Naples 1952
  • Commento alla Divina Commedia , 3 vols., Florence 1955–1957
  • Pagine di storia letteraria , Palermo 1960
  • Ritratto di Manzoni ed altri saggi , Bari 1961
  • Storia letteraria del Trecento , Milan / Naples 1963
  • (Ed. With Emilio Cecchi ), Storia della letteratura italiana , 10 vols., Milan 1965–1969 (further editions)
    • 1. Le origini e il Duecento
    • 2. Il Trecento
    • 3. Il Quattrocento e l'Ariosto
    • 4. Il Cinquecento
    • 5. Il Seicento
    • 6. Il Settecento
    • 7. L 'Ottocento
    • 8. Dall'Ottocento al Novento
    • 9. Il Novecento 1
    • 10. Il Novecento 2
  • Pagine disperse , Rome 1979

Posthumously

  • Petrarch. Lezioni e saggi , Turin 2004
  • Leopardi. Lezioni e saggi , Turin 2006
  • Manzoni. Lezioni e saggi , Milan 2009
  • Europe. Quaderni di traduzioni , Turin 2010

literature

  • Letteratura e critica. Studi in onore di Natalino Sapegno , Rome 1974–1979
  • Letteratura e critica. Esperienze e form del '900. Atti del Convegno in onore di Natalino Sapegno, (Saint-Vincent - Aosta, 30 September-3 October 1991) , ed. by Bruno Germano, Mario Ricciardi and Achille Tartaro, Florence 1993
  • Carlo Dionisotti , Natalino Sapegno dalla Torino di Gobetti alla cattedra romana , Turin 1994
  • Natalino Sapegno, Le più forti amicizie. Carteggio 1918-30 , ed. by Bruno Germano, Turin 2005
  • Natalino Sapegno e la cultura europea. Convegno internazionale di studi, Aosta-Morgex, 14-16 October 2010 , ed. by Giulia Radin, Turin 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Sapegno, Natalino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist, Italianist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Aosta
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1990
Place of death Rome