Rosa Del Conte

Rosa Del Conte (* 10. April 1907 in Voghera , † 3. August 2011 in Rome ) was an Italian Romanistin , Rumänistin and translator.

life and work

Rosetta (later: Rosa) Del Conte was a lecturer in Italian in Bucharest and Cluj from 1942 to 1948 . Then she taught Romanian in Italy, first at the Università del “Sacro Cuore” di Milano , from 1956 (as the successor to Claudiu Isopescu ) at the Università di Roma-La Sapienza , there from 1967 to 1982 as a professor of Romanian .

Rosa Del Conte translated Mihai Eminescu , Tudor Arghezi , V. Voiculescu and Lucian Blaga (whom she unsuccessfully proposed for the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature ) from Romanian into Italian, as well as the Italian authors Elio Vittorini , Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale into Romanian.

In 1994 the Romanian Academy made her an honorary member.

Rosa Del Conte was an honorary doctor from the Universities of Bucharest , Cluj and Iaşi .

She died at the age of 104.

Mihai Eminescu o dell 'Assoluto , Modena 1961 (Romanian: Eminescu sau despre Absolut , Cluj 1990, Cluj-Napoca 2003)
(Ed. And translator) Mihai Eminescu, Poesie , Modena 1989 (Romanian and Italian)

personal data
SURNAME	Del Conte, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Del Conte, Rosetta; Conte, Rosa del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Romance philologist, Romanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Voghera
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 2011
Place of death	Rome