Tommaso Casini

Tommaso Casini (born February 27, 1859 in Pragatto , Crespellano , † April 16, 1917 in Bazzano ) was an Italian Romanist and historian.

life and work

Casini grew up in Bazzano, graduated from high school in Modena in 1877 and studied in Bologna (with Giosuè Carducci ), then in Florence (with Adolfo Bartoli ). He received his doctorate there in 1881 with the Tesa di laurea La coltura bolognese nei secoli XII e XIII (Turin 1883) and went through a career as a high school teacher and administrator in the places Arpino, Pisa (1884), Rome (1888), Pesaro (1890), Perugia, Cagliari, Ravenna and Modena (1896–1908). Then he was school inspector, head of cabinet in the ministry and finally from 1913 to 1915 professor at the University of Padua .

Casinis Manuale di letteratura italiana ad uso dei licei (3 vols., Florence 1886-1891) was very successful and was added to the outline of the Romance philology by Gustav Gröber in a German translation and T. "Italian literature" (second volume. Third section , Strasbourg 1901, pp. 1–217).

In Italy Casini was best known as a commentator on the works of Dante Alighieri (first published in 1885, until the present day).

Other works

• Scritti Danteschi , Città di Castello 1913
• Studi di poesia antica , Città di Castello 1913
• Ritratti e studi moderni , Milan / Rome / Naples 1914

literature

• Felice Del Beccaro:  CASINI, Tommaso. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 21:  Caruso – Castelnuovo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1978.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tommaso Casini in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Standard entry in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
• Publications by Tommaso Casini in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale