Gian Biagio Conte

Gian Biagio Conte ( born 1941 in La Spezia ) is an Italian classical scholar and Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Life

Conte has studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and was there by scholars such as Antonio La Penna ( born 1925 ), Sebastiano Timpanaro and Alfonso Traina (* 1925) coined. With La Penna Conte, however, any contact in an exchange of letters canceled abruptly after fruitful cooperation. Conte has also spent a lot of study in Munich with Friedrich Klingner and in Paris. At the age of thirty years he was Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena and later at the University of Pisa, and finally in 2001 at the Scuola Normale Superiore. His high reputation abroad has earned him a visiting professor at Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Berkeley and Stanford. In 2007 he ran for director of the Scuola Normale Superiore, but was defeated in the elections the previous director Salvatore Settis, who received his third consecutive term in office.

Services

Conte is concerned almost exclusively with the Latin literature, mainly poetry of the late Republic, the Augustan and early imperial period ( Virgil, Lucan, Catullus, the elegiac poets, Ovid, Lucretius ), but also with prose authors such as Pliny the Elder and the novel of Petronius. Contes access to Latin literature distinguishes itself by a combination of traditional philology with the innovations of literary theory in the 1970s, particularly structuralism. In his most successful works, for the most part essays that were later assembled in thematic collections, Conte broke with Croce's historicism and developed the concept of a literary system and the literary genre that is based on relevant codes. This approach Contes, was just recently in the Anglo-Saxon philology of the last thirty years and successfully expanded in conjunction with the intertextuality. Just released is a new Teubneriana the Aeneid; currently working Conte, supported by a group of researchers and students to continue on a commentary on the classical epic, on a commentary on the Satyrica of Petron and from investigations of allegory as a literary and hermeneutical form.

Conte is co-founder and editor of the journal Materiali e discussioni per l' analisi dei testi classici and full member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantua.

In the academic year 1994/1995 Conte Sather was a professor.

Among his students Alessandro Barchiesi, Alessandro Schiesaro, Rolando Ferri, Sergio Casali.

Writings (selection )

Monographs and collections of essays

  • Memoria Poets e sistema letterario. Einaudi, Torino 1974, 2nd edition 1985. English Translation: The Rhetoric of Imitation, trans. Glenn W. Most, Cornell U. P. Ithaca / London 1987
  • English Translation: Latin Literature: A History, trans. v. Joseph B. Solodow, revised. by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 1994 ( review Peter Davis: Scholia Reviews ns 5 (1996 ) 3).
  • English Translation: Genres and Readers, trans. v. Glenn W. Most, Johns Hopkins U.P., Baltimore.
  • English Translation: The Hidden Author. California University Press, 1996.
  • English Translation: The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic. Ed. by S. J. Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0-199-28701-5.

Text Critical Edition

  • P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Ed. Gian Biagio Conte ( Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-019607-8.
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