Scevola Mariotti

Scevola Mariotti (born April 24, 1920 in Pesaro , † January 5, 2000 in Rome ) was an Italian classical philologist .

Life

Scevola Mariotti attended the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , where Giorgio Pasquali was his teacher. He was one of the best of his year, together with Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , the later politician and president of Italy.

From 1949 Mariotti studied Classical Philology at the University of Urbino . He then taught there as a lecturer in Latin literature and language, and from 1956 as a full professor. In 1963 he moved to La Sapienza University in Rome, where he worked until the end of his life. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times.

Mariotti dealt with wide areas of Roman literature. His research focus was the early Roman epic, on which he submitted three weighty monographs within a few years: his Lezioni su Ennio (1951) were inspired by Giorgio Pasquali, who had been interested in the poet since 1915. The books on Livius Andronicus (1952) and Gnaeus Naevius (1955) each also contained a collection of fragments. In academic teaching, Mariotti also dealt with other literary epochs. His academic school was therefore not limited to archaic poetry, but included all of Latin literature from antiquity to the early modern period.

In addition to his research and teaching activities, Mariotti also worked as a science organizer. Together with Luigi Castiglioni , he edited the dictionary Vocabolario della lingua latina (first 1966, third edition 1997). At the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae he had been a flag reader since 1963; In 1992 he was appointed delegate of the Accademia dei Lincei to the International Thesaurus Commission. Mariotti was also the longstanding editor of the journal Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica . In 1984 he initiated the international symposium La filologia classica nel secolo XX , at which researchers from all over the world assessed the position of classical philology in various countries. The contributions appeared in 1989 in three volumes. Another fruit of this conference is the Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (CPhCl), which was started in the 1990s at the University of Pisa and has been continued on the Internet since 2003, with international participation since 2009.

Mariotti has received numerous international awards for his versatile work. He was a full member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino and the Accademia dell'Arcadia as well as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the British Academy and the Polish Academy of Sciences . He received an honorary doctorate from the universities of Athens , Budapest and Urbino.

Fonts (selection)

• Lezioni su Ennio . Pesaro 1951
• Livio Andronico e la traduzione artistica. Saggio critico ed edizione dei frammenti dell 'Odyssea . Milan 1952. Second edition, Urbino 1986
• Il 'Bellum Poenicum' e l'arte di Nevio . Rome 1955
• Enciclopedia Oraziana . Three volumes, Rome 1996–1998
• Scritti di filologia classica . Rome 2000

literature

• Mario De Nonno: Scevola Mariotti † . In: Gnomon . Volume 74 (2002), pp. 279-285