Raffaele Cantarella

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Raffaele Cantarella

Raffaele Cantarella (born April 25, 1898 in Mistretta , † May 6, 1977 in Milan ) was an Italian Graecist and Byzantinist .

Life

Raffaele Cantarella, son of Francesco Cantarella and Eva Rebeck, grew up in Salerno , where his father taught Latin and ancient Greek in high schools. Cantarella, for his part, studied Classical Philology at the University of Naples and obtained the Laurea in Ancient Greek in 1920 from Alessandro Olivieri , who was a student of Girolamo Vitelli . This was followed by a year of advanced training in Greek studies at the Istituto di Studi Superiori di Firenze . Cantarella then taught at various grammar schools and high schools. In 1927 he was appointed private lecturer in Greek literature. From 1929 to 1938 he was director of the Officina dei Papiri Ercolanesi at the National Library in Naples . From 1935 to 1938 he was also a lecturer in Classical Philology at the University of Naples. In 1938 he became an associate professor for Byzantine philology, from 1939 for Greek literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 1951 he moved to the State University of Milan as full professor of Greek literature and lecturer in Byzantine philology , where he retired on November 1, 1968.

Cantarella's research areas were the Homeric epics and Greek tragedy ( Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides ) and comedy ( Aristophanes , Menander ), on the Byzantine side Maximus the Confessor and Byzantine poetry. His History of Greek Literature has been updated and reissued.

His daughter Eva Cantarella (* 1936 in Rome) is a legal historian .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Sophocles, Trachinias ad novam emendatamque codicum recognitionem scholiisque recentioribus additis edidit RC, Naples 1926.
  • Poeti bizantini, I: Testi; II: Introduzione , traduzione e commento, 2 volumes, Milan 1948.
  • with Antonio Garzya (ed.): Lirici greci. Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, Rome 1959, 12th edition 1995.
  • Storia della letteratura greca , Nuova Accademia Editrice, Milan 1962.
  • La letteratura greca dell'età ellenistica e imperiale. Nuova edizione aggiornata, Florence / Milan 1968
  • La letteratura greca classica . Nuova edizione aggiornata, Florence / Milan 1968; BUR, Milan 2002, ISBN 8817112518 .
  • Scritti minori sul teatro greco , Brescia 1970 (contains a list of some of his writings)
  • Civiltà e letteratura della Grecia antica. Roma, 1972.
  • with Giuseppe Scarpat: Breve introduzione ad Omero . Editrice Dante Alighieri, Milan 1989, ISBN 8853400846 .

literature

  • Riccardo Avallone: La figura e l'opera di Raffaele Cantarella. Discorso commemorativo tenuto nel Salone dei Marmi del Palazzo di Città il 24 March 1979. Comune di Salerno, Salerno 1979.
  • Marcello Gigante : Ricordo di Raffaele Cantarella , in: Rendiconti dell'Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere, Arti di Napoli Vol. 52, 1977, pp. 205-214.
  • Agostino Pertusi : Umanità di un maestro: testimonianza su Raffaele Cantarella . Edizioni del Centro Librario, Bari / Santo Spirito 1972. Reprint from: Rassegna pugliese , Vol. 7, No. 10/11, October / November 1972.
  • Biography e bibliography degli Accademici Lincei . Accademia dei Lincei, Rome 1976, pp. 817-819.
  • Piero Treves :  Cantarella, Raffaele. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 48:  Filoni-Forghieri. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Cantarella, Raffaele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Graecist and Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistretta
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1977
Place of death Milan