Severino Ferrari

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Severino Ferrari

Severino Ferrari (born March 25, 1856 in Molinella , † December 24, 1905 in Pistoia ) was an Italian poet, Romanist and Italianist .

life and work

Ferrari went to school in Bologna . He studied at the University of Bologna with Giosuè Carducci , then at the University of Florence (graduating in 1878). He taught at high schools in Bologna, Macerata and Florence. In 1882 he completed his habilitation and taught at high schools in La Spezia , Faenza (1886), Palermo (1888), Modena (until 1893) and Florence, there from 1897 at the Pedagogical College for Women. In 1901 he was appointed to the University of Bologna, but had to give up his lectureship in October 1904 due to illness. Carducci's successor was his friend Giovanni Pascoli .

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) Biblioteca della letteratura italiana popolare , Florence 1882, Bologna 1967
  • (Ed.) Antologia della lirica moderna italana , Bologna 1892, 1901
  • (Ed.) Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme liberata , Florence 1890, most recently Milan 1992
  • (Ed. With Giosuè Carducci) Le rime di Francesco Petrarca di su gli originali , Florence 1899 (numerous editions up to 1984)
  • (Ed.) Agnolo Firenzuola , Prose scelte , Florence 1908, 1967
  • Tutte le poesie , ed. by Furio Felcini, Bologna 1966

literature

  • Massimo Onofri:  FERRARI, Severino. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 46:  Feducci-Ferrerio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1996.
  • Severino Ferrari e il Sogno della Poesia , ed. by Simonetta Santucci, Bologna 2003 (files from the Colloquium in Molinella 1999)
  • Francesco Bausi, Il poeta che ragiona tanto bene dei poeti. Critica e arte nell'opera di Severino Ferrari , Bologna 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, Severino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet, Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Molinella
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1905
Place of death Pistoia