Gianfranco Contini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gianfranco Contini

Italian philologist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1912

Place of Birth: Domodossola, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1990

Profession: romanist, literary critic, philologist, linguist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gianfranco Contini

  • Gianfranco Contini (1912 – 1990) was an Italian academic and philologist. He studied at the Collegio Mellerio Rosmini in Domodossola, then at the University of Pavia, where he graduated in 1933.
  • Later, he studied also in Turin, where he met Giulio Einaudi, Massimo Mila, and Leone Ginzburg, who shortly after started the Einaudi's publishing company.
  • From 1934 to 1936, he lived in Paris, following Joseph BĂ©dier's lessons, then he was called to teach in Florence and Pisa, where he became a contributor to "Letteratura", a literary magazine where he shared his views, among others, with Eugenio Montale, and where he began to collaborate with the Accademia della Crusca.
  • In 1938, he was called to teach Romance Philology at the University of Freiburg, as a successor of Bruno Migliorini.
  • Among his students, there have been the critics D'Arco Silvio Avalle and Dante Isella.
  • After 20 years of brilliant academic activity, he was appointed at the University of Florence, and to the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
  • He was also associated to the AcadĂ©mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He directed the Centre of Philology Studies of the Accademia della Crusca, until March 1971.
  • He belonged to the Accademia dei Lincei, and was President of the SocietĂ  Dantesca Italiana.
  • In 1987, he went back to his home-town where he died three years later.

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