Vincenzo Rotolo

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Vincenzo Rotolo (* 1931 ) is an Italian neo-Greekist and professor emeritus of neo-Greek studies at the University of Palermo .

Life

Rotolo studied Greek and Neo- Greek studies with Bruno Lavagnini at the University of Palermo and acquired the laurea in 1954 . Sent by Bruno Lavagnini, who at that time was in charge of rebuilding the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene , he then studied for a year in Thessaloniki , especially with Ioannis Kakridis , Linos Politis and Emmanuel Kriaras , before going to Athens and from 1958 to 1964 he was lecturer for Italian language and literature at the university . During this time, Rotolo met most of the great Greek writers such as Papatsonis, Seferis , Elytis , Ritsos , Vrettakos , Myrivilis , Venezis, Terzakis . After returning from Greece, Rotolo first taught at the Liceo Vittorio Emmanuele II in Palermo before going to university as a lecturer in neo- Greek studies. He developed a close friendship with Nikiforos Vrettakos, whom he had already met in Greece, when the Greek writer stayed in Palermo at the invitation of Bruno Lavagnini during the Greek military dictatorship and worked there on the development of a modern Greek-Italian dictionary, which Rotolo later himself should issue.

Rotolo has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens since 1991 and the current President of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, which is independent from the University of Palermo . He is the founder of the journal Pagine di letteratura neogreca and is on the editorial board of the Modern Greek Studies Yearbook .

Research priorities

In the fields of Greek and Byzantine studies , Rotolo worked on ancient pantomime and translated The Conquest of Thessaloniki by Eustathios of Thessalonica . In the field of Neo-Greek Studies, modern Greek poetry, Adamantios Korais and the Greek language question and the Greek dialects (the forms of Griko ) in Apulia and Calabria have been the subject of various relevant publications. The contemporary authors Rotolo has made known in Italy and beyond through his translations include, apart from Nikiforos Vrettakos, Odysseas Elytis , Giannis Ritsos , Kostula Mitropoulou and Kostas Sterjopoulos . But the poem Hellas by the librarian, philologist and theologian Leone Allacci from the 17th century also caught his attention.

Fonts

  • Il pantomimo. Studi e testi. Presso l'Accademia, Palermo 1957 (Quaderni dello Istituto di filologia greca della Università di Palermo, 1).
  • Eustazio di Tessalonica: La espugnazione di Tessalonica . Testo critico, introduzione, annotazioni di Stilpon Kyriakidis. Proemio di Bruno Lavagnini , versione italiana di Vincenzo Rotolo. Palermo 1961 ( Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici , Testi e monumenti. Testi, 5).
  • A. Korais e la questione della lingua in Grecia. Presso l'Accademia, Palermo 1965 (Quaderni dell'Istituto di filologia greca dell'Universita di Palermo).
  • Leone Allacci, Il carme "Hellas". A cura di Vincenzo Rotolo. Mori, Palermo 1966.
  • Odysseas Elytis, 21 poetry. Traduzione di Vincenzo Rotolo. Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, Palermo 1968.
  • Kostoula Metropoulou, Cronaca dei tre giorni. La rivolta del Politecnico di Atene. Traduzione di Vincenzo Rotolo. Selerio, Palermo 1975. (Title of the original: Το χρονικό των τριών ημερών )
  • The 'Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign'. The Transition from the Early to the Later Elytis, in: Odysseus Elytis. Analogies of Light. Edited by Ivar Ivask. University of Oklahoma Press 1975, pp. 75-79; also in: Books Abroad , Vol. 49, No. 4 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 690-695.
  • (Ed.): Dizionario Greco Moderno - Italiano. Gei, Rome 1993. (The project for this dictionary was initiated by Bruno Lavagnini, who died a year before publication.)
  • (Eds., With Gennaro D'Ippolito , Salvatore Nicosia): Giornate di studio sull'opera di Bruno Lavagnini. Palermo, 7-8 maggio 1993. Atti . Palermo 1995 (Quaderni dell'Istituto di Filologia greca dell 'Università di Palermo, 22).
  • Kostas Sterjopoulos, Lucentezza del Giorno. Poetry scelte e tradotte a cura di Vincenzo Rotolo. Salvatore Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta, 2000. Review by Gabriella Macrì: online .
  • Neogreco, Grico e Grecanico. Il problema dell'insegnamento , in: I Fonì Dikìma. Anno II, Settembre 2007, pp. 5–7 (with photograph)
  • Scritti sulla lingua greca antica e moderna. A cura di Renata Lavagnini . Universita di Palermo, Facolta di lettere e filosofia, Palermo, 2009 (Annali della Facolta di lettere e filosofia dell'Universita di Palermo. Studi e ricerche, Volume 46).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Gabriella Bertelé: L'insegnamento della lingua e cultura italiana in Grecia , on: culturitalia.uibk.ac.at ( Memento of December 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Tano Gullo: il Vittorio Emanuele II . In: La Repubblica , February 5, 2002, p. 7, Sezione: Palermo
personal data
SURNAME Rotolo, Vincenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931