Manara Valgimigli
Illustration — Image of M Valgimigli Manara Valgimigli (9 July 1876, in San Piero in Bagno – 28 August 1965, in Vilminore di Scalve) was an Italian classical philologist and Greek scholar, best remembered for his book Poeti e filosofi di Grecia (1965), which won a Viareggio Prize in non-fiction. A graduate of the University of Bologna, he taught Greek literature at the University of Messina and the University of Pisa. A member of the Italian Socialist Party, he was one of several prominent signatories of the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals in 1925.
Manara Valgimigli
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- Born
- 1876 · Bagno di Romagna.
- Died
- 1965 · Vilminore di Scalve.
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- poet · politician · classical philologist · hellenist · translator · librarian · writer
- Fields
- classical philology · ancient Greek literature
- Education
- University of Bologna
- Teachers
- Giosuè Carducci
- Honours
- Viareggio Prize
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Image of M Valgimigli Manara Valgimigli (9 July 1876, in San Piero in Bagno – 28 August 1965, in Vilminore di Scalve) was an Italian classical philologist and Greek scholar, best remembered for his book Poeti e filosofi di Grecia (1965), which won a Viareggio Prize in non-fiction. A graduate of the University of Bologna, he taught Greek literature at the University of Messina and the University of Pisa. A member of the Italian Socialist Party, he was one of several prominent signatories of the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals in 1925.
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Bagno di Romagna.
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Manara Valgimigli studied at University of Bologna. Training under Giosuè Carducci is recorded. Elpidio Mioni is recorded as having studied under Manara Valgimigli. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is classical philology and ancient Greek literature. Employment is recorded with University of Pisa, University of Padua and Biblioteca comunale Classense. Positions recorded include library director. Distinctions recorded are Viareggio Prize.
In 1975, a psycho-pedagogical lyceum in Rimini was dedicated to Valgimigli. In 1998, it was merged with city's classical lyceum to become the multidisciplinary Julius Caesar–Manara Valgimigli Lyceum, the largest secondary school in the Province of Rimini.
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- 1.Walter Della Monica, Poeti e scrittori di Romagna, Cesena, Il Ponte Vecchio, 2005, p. 46.
- 2.Giannino Zanelli, Il Resto del Carlino, 29 agosto 1965.
- 3.AIB-WEB. DBBI20. Mioni, Elpidio.
- 4.Claudio Marabini, I Grandi di Romagna, Bologna, Poligrafici Editoriale, 1990, p. 152.
- 5.Giovanni Spadolini, Il suo e il nostro 'Carlino , Il Resto del Carlino, 29 agosto 1965.
- 6.Della biblioteca classense aveva fatto la sua casa, come scrive Marino Biondi nel suo saggio Le opere e i giorni a corredo della mostra che gli venne dedicata nel 1993.
- 7.Franca Strocchi, Personaggi della vita pubblica di Forlì e circondario, Urbino, Edizioni Quattroventi, 1996, p. 865.
- 8.M.Biondi, Valgimigli e il tempo del Carducci, Bagno di Romagna, Centro di Studi Storici, 1991, p. 283.
- 9.Franca Strocchi, op. cit., p. 865.
- 10.Franca Strocchi, op.cit., p. 865.
- 11.E. Degani, "Italia", in La filologia Greca nel secolo XX, p. 1089.
- 12.Il filologo alpinista - L'Osservatore Romano. www.osservatoreromano.va.
- 13.Eugenio Matteucci, Manara Valgimigli e l’Alto Adige, in «Adige Panorama», II (1971), n. 6, pp. 8-9.
- 14.Premio letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci. premioletterarioviareggiorepaci.it.
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