Pio Rajna

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Pio Rajna (born July 8, 1847 in Sondrio , † November 25, 1930 in Florence ) was an Italian Romanist .

life and work

From 1864 to 1868 Rajna was a student of Alessandro D'Ancona and Domenico Comparetti (1835-1927) at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa . From 1868 to 1872 he taught Latin and Greek literature at the Liceo Muratori in Modena and was transferred to the Liceo Parini in Milan in September 1872 . Suggested by Graziadio Ascoli , he taught Romance philology at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano from 1873 to 1882 , and from 1883 to 1922 as successor to Napoleone Caix (1845-1882) at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence . His students included Ernesto Giacomo Parodi , Giuseppe Vandelli (1865–1937) and Mario Casella (1886–1956). Rajna had been a member of the Accademia della Crusca since 1898 and its president from 1924 until his death, a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1887, full member from 1907 and a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1909, and of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1910 . and since 1920 the British Academy . In 1922 he became a senator of the kingdom .

In 1988 the "Centro Pio Rajna. Centro di studi per la ricerca letteraria, linguistica e filologica" was founded in Rome, and since 2002 it has also published a Bollettino.

Works (in selection)

  • Ricerche intorno ai Reali di Francia , Bologna 1872
  • Le fonti dell'Orlando Furioso. Ricerche e studi , Florence 1875, 2nd edition 1900, 1975
  • Le origini dell'epopea francese , Florence 1884, 1956 ( Friedrich Diez Prize , first awarded)
  • (Ed.) Il trattato De vulgari eloquentia [by Dante], Florence 1896, Milan 1965
  • La materia e la forma della Divina Commedia. I mondi oltraterreni nelle letterature classiche e nelle medievali , ed. by Claudia Di Fonzo. Premessa di Francesco Mazzoni, Florence 1998
  • Saggi di filologia e linguistica italiana e romanza , ed. by Guido Lucchini. Premessa di Francesco Mazzoni. Introduzione di Cesare Segre , 3 vols., Rome 1998
  • Due scritti inediti. Le leggende epiche dei Longobardi, Storia del romanzo cavalleresco in Italia , ed. by Patrizia Gasparini. Premessa di Luciano Formisano, Rome 2004

literature

  • Studi letterari e linguistici, dedicati a Pio Rajna nel quarantesimo anno del suo insegnamento , Florence / Milan 1911
  • Carteggio Rajna - Carlo Salvioni , ed. by Carla Maria Sanfilippo, Pisa 1979
  • Carteggio Pio Rajna - Francesco Novati (1878-1915) , ed. by Guido Lucchini, Milan 1995
  • Sergio Lubello:  Rajna, Pio. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 86:  Querenghi-Rensi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2016.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ He is entered in the birth and baptismal register of the parish of Sondrio as Paolo Michele Angelo Pio Rajna. In the Fascicolo personale page 5 of the Senate's Historical Archives
  2. ^ Membership catalog of the Crusca
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 195.
  4. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rajna, Pio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rajna, Paolo Michele Angelo Pio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondrio
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1930
Place of death Florence