Paul Renucci

Paul Renucci (born March 8, 1915 in Erbajolo , Haute-Corse department , † November 9, 1977 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was a French Romance scholar , Italianist and literary scholar .

life and work

Paul Renucci, son of the Italian professor Toussaint Renucci , attended schools in Clermont-Ferrand and Marseille , then the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He studied in Pavia and at the Sorbonne . After the Agrégation he was a high school teacher in Toulouse from 1936 to 1945, teaching at the university and doing journalistic work. In 1951 he completed his habilitation in Paris with the work Dante disciple et juge du monde gréco-latin (2 volumes, Paris 1953–1954). From 1946 he was Maître de conférences at the University of Strasbourg , from 1952 to 1957 professor (from 1951 to 1954 also in Manchester ). From 1957 Renucci held the chair for Italian and Romanian at the Sorbonne (later Paris IV University ) as the successor to Henri Bédarida . He died before his retirement . Renucci was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

(Ed. With Renzo Milani) Torquato Tasso, Aminta , Paris 1952
Dante , Paris 1958, 1963
(Preface) Goldoni, Théâtre , Paris 1972 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
(Ed.) Luigi Pirandello, Théâtre complet , Paris 1977, 1987 ( Bibliothèque de la Pléiade )

Trente ans de recherche sur la culture Italienne 1947–1977 . In: Revue des études italiennes , No. 24. 1978, pp. 7–327 (list of publications and 13 collected works)
Béatrice and Michel Wattel, Qui était qui . XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005.
Le Monde December 9th 1977

Information on Paul Renucci in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Literature by and about Paul Renucci in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Renucci, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erbajolo , Haute-Corse department
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1977
Place of death	Beaulieu-sur-Mer