Domenico Comparetti
This article is largely based on an article in the out-of-copyright Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, which was produced in 1911. (January 2016) |
Domenico Comparetti | |
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Born | Rome | 27 June 1835
Died | 20 January 1927 Florence | (aged 91)
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Alma mater | University of Rome |
Domenico Comparetti (27 June 1835 – 20 January 1927) was an Italian scholar. He was born in Rome and died in Florence.
Life
He studied at the
In 1857 he published, in the
In Pisa, in 1863, he met Leone Raffalovich, a businessman from
Works
The list of Comparetti's writings is long and varied. Of his works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on Pindar and Sappho. He also edited the great inscription which contains a collection of the municipal laws of Gortyn in Crete, discovered on the site of the ancient city.[1][3]
In the Kalewala and the Traditional Poetry of the Finns (English translation by I. M. Anderton, 1898) he discusses the national epic of Finland and its heroic songs, with a view to solving the problem whether an epic could be composed by the interweaving of such national songs. He comes to a negative conclusion, and applies this reasoning to the Homeric problem. He treats this question again in a treatise on the so-called Peisistratean edition of Homer (La Commissione omerica di Pisistrato, 1881).[1]
His Researches concerning the Book of Sindibad were translated in the Proceedings of the
In 1879, a number of small golden tablets were discovered in tombs in
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Comparetti, Domenico". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 803–804. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Barbiana e la sua Scuola | La Famiglia (Italian)
- ^ Sir John Edwin Sandys (1908). A history of classical scholarship ... At the University press. pp. 244–.
- ^ Edmonds 2013, p. 55.
- ^ Edmonds, p. 56.
References
- Edmonds, Radcliffe G., Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-03821-9.