Roberto Zapperi

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Roberto Zapperi (born January 20, 1932 in Catania ) is an Italian historian and writer .

Life

Roberto Zapperi studied history and cultural anthropology in Rome. For the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana he worked in the editorial department of the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani and as supervisor of the historical-anthropological section of the Bibliotheca Biographica . In the 1980s he taught as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris .

In 1997/1998 Zapperi was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a Warburg professor in Hamburg . Since 2008 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Zapperi published several books and numerous articles. His wife, the art historian Ingeborg Walter , translates his books into German ; he translates hers into Italian . His books have also been translated into Spanish , French , English , Japanese and Korean .

Fonts (selection)

  • The pregnant man. Men, women and power. Translation Ingeborg Walter. CH Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09678-6 .
  • Titian , Paul III. and his grandchildren. Nepotism and State Portrait . Translation of Horst Bredekamp . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-10324-X .
  • Annibale Carracci . Portrait of a young artist . Translation Ingeborg Walter. Wagenbach, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-8031-3557-5
  • The incognito. Goethe's very different existence in Rome. Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44587-X .
  • The wild man of Tenerife. The miraculous story of Pedro Gonzalez and his children. Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-44792-9 .
  • Roman traces. Goethe and his Italy. Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56295-2 .
  • with Ingeborg Walter : The portrait of the beloved. Stories of love from Petrarch to Titian. The rebirth of love in the Italian Renaissance. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55502-2 .
  • Farewell to Mona Lisa . The most famous painting in the world is unraveled. Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59781-7 .
  • An Italian childhood. Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62092-8 .
  • All roads lead to Rome. The eternal city and its visitors. Translation Ingeborg Walter.Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64451-1 .
  • The Popes and their painters. From Raphael to Titian . Translation Ingeborg Walter. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66976-7 .
  • Freud and Mussolini. Psychoanalysis, church, fascism . Translation Ingeborg Walter. Berenberg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-946334-09-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Zapperi: An Italian Childhood. P. 9 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Christina Höfferer: All roads lead to Rome. Roberto Zapperi on Rome and its visitors. Interview. at ORF, February 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Zapperi, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania , Sicily