Natalino Sapegno
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Natalino Sapegno in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/natalino-sapegno/ (encyclopedia entry, Italian)
- http://www.sapegno.it/sapegno/index.php (Foundation website, Italian; autobiographical notes and complete list of publications)
personal data | |
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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 |