Vincenzo Di Benedetto

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Vincenzo Di Benedetto (born January 12, 1934 in Altomonte , † July 19 or 20, 2013 in Pisa ) was an Italian classical philologist .

Life

The son of the tailor Saverio Di Benedetto and his wife Maria Gaetana, b. Santoro, grew up in Saracena ( Calabria ) and attended the humanistic high school in Castrovillari . He studied from 1952 to 1958 in Pisa (as a scholarship holder of the Scuola Normale Superiore ) and Oxford ( Corpus Christi College ). His teachers included Aurelio Peretti , Augusto Campana , Alessandro Perosa , Ignazio Cazzaniga , Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli , Vittorio Bartoletti and Eduard Fraenkel . Outside the university he received significant impulses from his friend, the Latinist Sebastiano Timpanaro and his mother, the philosophy historian Maria Timpanaro Cardini . From 1969 until his retirement in 2006 he taught Greek literature at the University of Pisa , and from 1971 to 1993 also at the Scuola Normale Classical Philology . He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease since 1996 and had to use a wheelchair since 2006 , but worked until shortly before his death.

Since May 14, 1972, he was married to the high school literature teacher Diana Fiorini ; their son Saverio was born on November 27, 1972.

His students include scholars such as Luigi Battezzato , Franco Ferrari , Alessandro Lami , Maria Chiara Martinelli , Enrico Medda , Daniela Manetti , Maria Pia Pattoni and Amneris Roselli .

Create

His specialties included the history of Greek grammar , Greek tragedy (especially Euripides ), the so-called Hippocratic corpus , Sappho , and the Homeric epics , but also Dante , Foscolo , and Alessandro Manzoni . He published numerous monographs , but also bilingual editions, which were aimed at both a wider audience and specialists. They received less attention in German-speaking countries, but his last major work, the bilingual annotated edition of the Odyssey (2010), was described by Barbara Graziosi in her review as "a monumental achievement". But the selection of his little writings, which Riccardo Di Donato published under the title Il richiamo del testo in 2007, fills four thick volumes and contains some of his most important research achievements, such as the proof that Aristotle reproduced his sources much more reliably than he did for a long time was suspected.

Publications (in selection)

  • La tradizione manoscritta euripidea. Padua 1965.
  • Euripidis Orestes . Introduzione, testo critico, commento e appendice metrica. Florence 1965.
  • Euripide: teatro e società. Turin 1971, ISBN 88-06-12872-8 .
  • L'ideologia del potere e la tragedia greca. Ricerche su Eschilo . Turin 1978, ISBN 88-06-35469-8 .
  • with Alessandro Lami: Filologia e marxismo . Contro le mistificazioni. Naples 1981, ISBN 88-207-1005-6 .
  • Sofocle . Florence 1983, 2nd edition 1988, ISBN 88-221-0386-6 .
  • Il medico e la malattia. La scienza di Ippocrate. Turin 1986, ISBN 88-06-59327-7 .
  • with Franco Ferrari: Saffo, poetry. Introduzione di Vincenzo Di Benedetto. Traduzione e note di Franco Ferrari. Milan 1987, ISBN 88-17-16623-5 .
  • Lo scrittoio di Ugo Foscolo. Turin 1990, ISBN 88-06-11714-9 .
  • Ugo Foscolo, Il sesto tomo dell 'Io. Edizione critica e commento. Turin 1991, ISBN 88-06-12179-0 .
  • Nel laboratorio di Omero. Turin 1994, greatly expanded second edition 1998, ISBN 88-06-12738-1 .
  • La tragedia sulla scena: la tragedia greca in quanto spettacolo teatrale (with Enrico Medda). Turin 1997, ISBN 88-06-13777-8 .
  • Guida ai Promessi sposi. I personaggi, la gente, le idealità. Milan 1999, ISBN 88-17-17268-5 .
  • Euripide, Le Baccanti. Premessa, introduzione, traduzione, costituzione del testo originale e commento a cura di V. Di Benedetto, appendice metrica di E. Cerbo. Milan 2004, ISBN 88-298-0130-5 .
  • Il richiamo del testo. Contributi di filologia e letteratura, I – IV. Prefazione a cura di R. Di Donato. Pisa 2007 (collected small writings).
  • Omero: Odissea. Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-17-02071-8 . - (Review by Barbara Graziosi in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.11.36 ).

literature

  • Ester Cerbo: Vincenzo Di Benedetto, studioso di teatro antico. In: Dionysus ex machina. Vol. 4 (2013), pp. 185-196 ( PDF) .
  • Enrico Medda: Ricordo di Vincenzo Di Benedetto. In: Lexis. Vol. 31 (2013), pp. 11-13.
  • Franco Ferrari: Un profilo di Vincenzo Di Benedetto. In: Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica. Vol. 142 (2014), H. 1, pp. 218-242.
  • Guido Paduano: Vincenzo Di Benedetto e l'interpretazione della tragedia greca. In: Eikasmós . Vol. 25 (2014), pp. 417-446.

Web links

  • Mauro Tulli: Ricordo del professor Vincenzo Di Benedetto. In: Obituary from the University of Pisa (online) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincenzo Di Benedetto: Ricordo di Polinnia. In: Lexis. 19, 2001, pp. 341-345.
  2. ↑ Vincenzo Di Benedetto: Ricordo di Eduard Fraenkel. In: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore. series IV, 5, 2001, pp. 1-20.
  3. ↑ Vincenzo Di Benedetto: Come ricordo Sebastiano Timpanaro, jr. In: Athenet online 6, 2002, 14-17, (online) (PDF).
  4. ↑ Vincenzo Di Benedetto: La citazione di Polibo nella Historia Animalium di Aristotele. In: Studi classici in onore di Quintino Cataudella. Catania 1972, Vol. 2, pp. 225-233.
personal data
SURNAME Di Benedetto, Vincenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Altomonte
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2013 or July 20, 2013
Place of death Pisa