Papers by Francesco Pagnotta
Analecta Papyrologica, 2024
Other documents are published here which testify to Giuseppe Fraccaroli’s
expertise in dealing wi... more Other documents are published here which testify to Giuseppe Fraccaroli’s
expertise in dealing with the new papyrus texts, like the so-called
pure philologists.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2023
Giuseppe Fraccaroli’s annotations to his copy of Il metodo critico del
Prof. Girolamo Vitelli pre... more Giuseppe Fraccaroli’s annotations to his copy of Il metodo critico del
Prof. Girolamo Vitelli preserved at the Civic Library of Verona are published
here: written at the end of 1917, they confirm the many prejudices
about Vitelli and his relations with German culture.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2022
The only surviving letter of the correspondence between Evaristo
Breccia and Giovanni Pascoli is ... more The only surviving letter of the correspondence between Evaristo
Breccia and Giovanni Pascoli is published here. It concerns the celebrations
for the death of Giosue Carducci.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2020
New documents are published here about Guido Gentilli, classical
philologist, papyrologist and pe... more New documents are published here about Guido Gentilli, classical
philologist, papyrologist and pedagogist, pupil of Girolamo Vitelli, unfortunately
forgotten today, but praised by Vitelli himself as an excellent scientist
and teacher. They are the surviving correspondence with Giuseppe
Fraccaroli regarding the Greek Language and Literature programs for
Gymnasium and Lyceum published in 1911.
Quaderni di Storia, 2020
The complete edition of the remaining correspondence between Vittorio
Puntoni and Girolamo Vitell... more The complete edition of the remaining correspondence between Vittorio
Puntoni and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, is
published here: it consists of eight letters and fifteen printed postcards, sent between
the 20th of May 1888 and the 17th of June 1896. This epistolary shows the importance
of Vitelli’s teaching in the history of classical studies in Italy.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2019
New documents are published here regarding the Greek Literature
competition at the University of ... more New documents are published here regarding the Greek Literature
competition at the University of Palermo in 1899, preserved in the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana, Fondo Vitelli. These are some of the judgments
of commissioners Vittorio Puntoni and Giuseppe Fraccaroli (in particular
of the latter on Nicola Festa) present in the minutes of the competition and
later copied by Girolamo Vitelli, then superior advisor of public education.
Il Maurolico, 2017
Waiting for the complete edition of the surviving Giulio Emanuele Rizzo-Giuseppe Fraccaroli corre... more Waiting for the complete edition of the surviving Giulio Emanuele Rizzo-Giuseppe Fraccaroli correspondence, this article examines and publishes the first three letters, the ones that look more closely at the experience of Rizzo in Messina, then a teacher at the lower secondary school "F. Maurolico "of Messina and eager to give his career, thanks to the support of Fraccaroli, a deserved leap in quality.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2016
The complete edition of the remaining correspondence among Ermenegildo
Pistelli and Girolamo Vit... more The complete edition of the remaining correspondence among Ermenegildo
Pistelli and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, is published here: it consists of thirty letters and nine
postcards, sent between the 16th of August 1883 and the 23rd of February
1925. These exchanges show the importance of Vitelli’s school in the history
of classical studies in Italy. Father Pistelli is a devoted student but
always sincere: after the advent of fascism, he will also criticize the illustrious
and revered teacher.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2015
The complete edition of the remaining correspondence among Girolamo
Vitelli and Giuseppe Fraccar... more The complete edition of the remaining correspondence among Girolamo
Vitelli and Giuseppe Fraccaroli is published here. It is preserved
partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana and partly in the Biblioteca
Civica di Verona and consists of fourteen postcards and nine letters sent
between the 20th of August 1889 and the 5th of March 1898. These exchanges
are testimony to the optimal rapport between the two Greek scholars during
this period before the fateful year of 1899 when, due to their difference, Italian
Classical Philology split into two sides thus creating a division between philologists
and antiphilologists which, coming out of the hortus conclusus of
the classical disciplines, will involve the whole Italian culture.
Quaderni di Storia, 2016
A selection of the most important letters between Girolamo Vitelli and
Pasquale Villari is here ... more A selection of the most important letters between Girolamo Vitelli and
Pasquale Villari is here presented, waiting the complete edition of the remaining correspondence,
preserved partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, partly in the Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana. These letters are rich in interesting and bitter thoughts on
culture, politics and society of Italy at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth century.
Atti dell’Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. Classe di Lettere, Filosofia e Belle Arti, 2012
Here is published the letter written by Giuseppe Fraccaroli to Giovanni Pascoli on April 26, 1899... more Here is published the letter written by Giuseppe Fraccaroli to Giovanni Pascoli on April 26, 1899 and kept in the poet's archive in Castelvecchio (LU).
Rivista Storica Calabrese, 2010
This article reviews the documents relating to the so-called 'Madonna del manganello', which was ... more This article reviews the documents relating to the so-called 'Madonna del manganello', which was believed to be from Vibo Valentia but which in fact is to be identified in the Madonna del Soccorso di Nicastro.
Atti dell’Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. Classe di Lettere, Filosofia e Belle Arti, 2010
Here is published the letter written by Giovanni Pascoli to Giuseppe Fraccaroli on April 28, 1899... more Here is published the letter written by Giovanni Pascoli to Giuseppe Fraccaroli on April 28, 1899 and kept in the "G. Fraccaroli" Fund of the Civic Library of Verona.
Analecta Papyrologica, 2014
Girolamo Vitelli was as an admirer of Giovanni Pascoli, as a detractor
of Gabriele d’Annunzio, c... more Girolamo Vitelli was as an admirer of Giovanni Pascoli, as a detractor
of Gabriele d’Annunzio, considered an ugly man and a mediocre artist.
One of his students, Father Ermenegildo Pistelli, devoted but always sincere,
wasn’t of the same opinion: he put aside the moral judgments and
could look away, recognizing D’Annunzio’s genius.
Il Maurolico, 2011
Here is published the surviving correspondence between Rocco Loschiavo, an obscure and devoted Ca... more Here is published the surviving correspondence between Rocco Loschiavo, an obscure and devoted Calabrian pupil of Giuseppe Fraccaroli, and his Master. The correspondence is kept in the "G. Fraccaroli" Fund of the Verona Civic Library.
Books by Francesco Pagnotta
The unpublished correspondence between Gaetano De Sanctis (1870-1957) and Annibale Evaristo Brecc... more The unpublished correspondence between Gaetano De Sanctis (1870-1957) and Annibale Evaristo Breccia (1876-1967) is published, preserved thanks to the respective students of the two intellectuals, Silvio Accame and Donato Morelli.
De Sanctis, one of the greatest historians of antiquity of the twentieth century, having personally experimented with archaeological research, never stopped considering the papyrological and epigraphic discoveries on the African coasts indispensable, where the Italian archaeological missions obtained results of great importance: they are testimony to this the correspondence between, among others, Girolamo Vitelli, Medea Norsa, Gaspare Oliverio, Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz. The correspondence with Evaristo Breccia, director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alessandria, but also an esteemed official, archaeologist and highly successful popularizer, covers almost half a century: it recounts a peculiar page of our studies, among the tumultuous events of Italian antiquity first half of the last century.
When, in November 1931, he was removed from the chair of the University of Rome for not having sworn loyalty to fascism, De Sanctis was tempted to leave Italy to move to Egypt, to Cairo. The prospect was enthusiastically supported by Breccia who at that time was an authoritative representative of Italian academia in Africa.
Antonella Amico introduced the correspondence by reconstructing a biographical profile of the two correspondents, also making use of unpublished documents, in particular regarding Breccia, on whose figure there had not yet been an in-depth independent study.
Francesco Pagnotta edited the corpus (51 letters and further documents from the University of Pisa and the Treccani Institute), going back to the contextual data and bibliographic information necessary for the correct understanding of the fruitful dialogue between two shores of the Mediterranean.
Carteggi di filologi, 2017
The work aims to deepen the figure of Giuseppe Fraccaroli (Verona 1849 - Milan 1918) through the ... more The work aims to deepen the figure of Giuseppe Fraccaroli (Verona 1849 - Milan 1918) through the analysis of the twenty-year correspondence with one of the most representative students of Messina, the illustrious archaeologist and historian of classical art Giulio Emanuele Rizzo (Melilli, Syracuse, 1865 - Rome 1950). The study of the correspondence made it possible to achieve two main objectives: firstly to deepen the origins and the crucial points of the contrast with the Florentine school of Vitelli and with the supporters of the philological method of Germanic ancestry, trying, data in hand, to undress the famous one controversy of clichés often accepted supinely only because they are present in authoritative publications; secondly, to suggest a less schematic and one-sided reading of Fraccaroli's multifaceted personality, focusing on aspects that are often considered secondary and instead decisive: moods, passions, academic resentments, sometimes led to excess, but always dictated by a deep and heartfelt love for the problem of school and culture in general.
From a purely scientific point of view, the correspondence represents an exemplary document of the conception of the study of the classical world shared by the two interlocutors, a harmonious and totalizing vision of the science of antiquity, that Altertumswissenschaft of Wolfian memory, in which the historical disciplines , philological and archaeological proceed together towards the same goal, they contribute with equal dignity to the re-enactment of the Greco-Roman civilization in its essence and in all the expressions of its life.
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expertise in dealing with the new papyrus texts, like the so-called
pure philologists.
Prof. Girolamo Vitelli preserved at the Civic Library of Verona are published
here: written at the end of 1917, they confirm the many prejudices
about Vitelli and his relations with German culture.
Breccia and Giovanni Pascoli is published here. It concerns the celebrations
for the death of Giosue Carducci.
philologist, papyrologist and pedagogist, pupil of Girolamo Vitelli, unfortunately
forgotten today, but praised by Vitelli himself as an excellent scientist
and teacher. They are the surviving correspondence with Giuseppe
Fraccaroli regarding the Greek Language and Literature programs for
Gymnasium and Lyceum published in 1911.
Puntoni and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, is
published here: it consists of eight letters and fifteen printed postcards, sent between
the 20th of May 1888 and the 17th of June 1896. This epistolary shows the importance
of Vitelli’s teaching in the history of classical studies in Italy.
competition at the University of Palermo in 1899, preserved in the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana, Fondo Vitelli. These are some of the judgments
of commissioners Vittorio Puntoni and Giuseppe Fraccaroli (in particular
of the latter on Nicola Festa) present in the minutes of the competition and
later copied by Girolamo Vitelli, then superior advisor of public education.
Pistelli and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, is published here: it consists of thirty letters and nine
postcards, sent between the 16th of August 1883 and the 23rd of February
1925. These exchanges show the importance of Vitelli’s school in the history
of classical studies in Italy. Father Pistelli is a devoted student but
always sincere: after the advent of fascism, he will also criticize the illustrious
and revered teacher.
Vitelli and Giuseppe Fraccaroli is published here. It is preserved
partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana and partly in the Biblioteca
Civica di Verona and consists of fourteen postcards and nine letters sent
between the 20th of August 1889 and the 5th of March 1898. These exchanges
are testimony to the optimal rapport between the two Greek scholars during
this period before the fateful year of 1899 when, due to their difference, Italian
Classical Philology split into two sides thus creating a division between philologists
and antiphilologists which, coming out of the hortus conclusus of
the classical disciplines, will involve the whole Italian culture.
Pasquale Villari is here presented, waiting the complete edition of the remaining correspondence,
preserved partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, partly in the Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana. These letters are rich in interesting and bitter thoughts on
culture, politics and society of Italy at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth century.
of Gabriele d’Annunzio, considered an ugly man and a mediocre artist.
One of his students, Father Ermenegildo Pistelli, devoted but always sincere,
wasn’t of the same opinion: he put aside the moral judgments and
could look away, recognizing D’Annunzio’s genius.
Books by Francesco Pagnotta
De Sanctis, one of the greatest historians of antiquity of the twentieth century, having personally experimented with archaeological research, never stopped considering the papyrological and epigraphic discoveries on the African coasts indispensable, where the Italian archaeological missions obtained results of great importance: they are testimony to this the correspondence between, among others, Girolamo Vitelli, Medea Norsa, Gaspare Oliverio, Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz. The correspondence with Evaristo Breccia, director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alessandria, but also an esteemed official, archaeologist and highly successful popularizer, covers almost half a century: it recounts a peculiar page of our studies, among the tumultuous events of Italian antiquity first half of the last century.
When, in November 1931, he was removed from the chair of the University of Rome for not having sworn loyalty to fascism, De Sanctis was tempted to leave Italy to move to Egypt, to Cairo. The prospect was enthusiastically supported by Breccia who at that time was an authoritative representative of Italian academia in Africa.
Antonella Amico introduced the correspondence by reconstructing a biographical profile of the two correspondents, also making use of unpublished documents, in particular regarding Breccia, on whose figure there had not yet been an in-depth independent study.
Francesco Pagnotta edited the corpus (51 letters and further documents from the University of Pisa and the Treccani Institute), going back to the contextual data and bibliographic information necessary for the correct understanding of the fruitful dialogue between two shores of the Mediterranean.
From a purely scientific point of view, the correspondence represents an exemplary document of the conception of the study of the classical world shared by the two interlocutors, a harmonious and totalizing vision of the science of antiquity, that Altertumswissenschaft of Wolfian memory, in which the historical disciplines , philological and archaeological proceed together towards the same goal, they contribute with equal dignity to the re-enactment of the Greco-Roman civilization in its essence and in all the expressions of its life.
expertise in dealing with the new papyrus texts, like the so-called
pure philologists.
Prof. Girolamo Vitelli preserved at the Civic Library of Verona are published
here: written at the end of 1917, they confirm the many prejudices
about Vitelli and his relations with German culture.
Breccia and Giovanni Pascoli is published here. It concerns the celebrations
for the death of Giosue Carducci.
philologist, papyrologist and pedagogist, pupil of Girolamo Vitelli, unfortunately
forgotten today, but praised by Vitelli himself as an excellent scientist
and teacher. They are the surviving correspondence with Giuseppe
Fraccaroli regarding the Greek Language and Literature programs for
Gymnasium and Lyceum published in 1911.
Puntoni and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, is
published here: it consists of eight letters and fifteen printed postcards, sent between
the 20th of May 1888 and the 17th of June 1896. This epistolary shows the importance
of Vitelli’s teaching in the history of classical studies in Italy.
competition at the University of Palermo in 1899, preserved in the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana, Fondo Vitelli. These are some of the judgments
of commissioners Vittorio Puntoni and Giuseppe Fraccaroli (in particular
of the latter on Nicola Festa) present in the minutes of the competition and
later copied by Girolamo Vitelli, then superior advisor of public education.
Pistelli and Girolamo Vitelli, preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, is published here: it consists of thirty letters and nine
postcards, sent between the 16th of August 1883 and the 23rd of February
1925. These exchanges show the importance of Vitelli’s school in the history
of classical studies in Italy. Father Pistelli is a devoted student but
always sincere: after the advent of fascism, he will also criticize the illustrious
and revered teacher.
Vitelli and Giuseppe Fraccaroli is published here. It is preserved
partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana and partly in the Biblioteca
Civica di Verona and consists of fourteen postcards and nine letters sent
between the 20th of August 1889 and the 5th of March 1898. These exchanges
are testimony to the optimal rapport between the two Greek scholars during
this period before the fateful year of 1899 when, due to their difference, Italian
Classical Philology split into two sides thus creating a division between philologists
and antiphilologists which, coming out of the hortus conclusus of
the classical disciplines, will involve the whole Italian culture.
Pasquale Villari is here presented, waiting the complete edition of the remaining correspondence,
preserved partly in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, partly in the Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana. These letters are rich in interesting and bitter thoughts on
culture, politics and society of Italy at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth century.
of Gabriele d’Annunzio, considered an ugly man and a mediocre artist.
One of his students, Father Ermenegildo Pistelli, devoted but always sincere,
wasn’t of the same opinion: he put aside the moral judgments and
could look away, recognizing D’Annunzio’s genius.
De Sanctis, one of the greatest historians of antiquity of the twentieth century, having personally experimented with archaeological research, never stopped considering the papyrological and epigraphic discoveries on the African coasts indispensable, where the Italian archaeological missions obtained results of great importance: they are testimony to this the correspondence between, among others, Girolamo Vitelli, Medea Norsa, Gaspare Oliverio, Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz. The correspondence with Evaristo Breccia, director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alessandria, but also an esteemed official, archaeologist and highly successful popularizer, covers almost half a century: it recounts a peculiar page of our studies, among the tumultuous events of Italian antiquity first half of the last century.
When, in November 1931, he was removed from the chair of the University of Rome for not having sworn loyalty to fascism, De Sanctis was tempted to leave Italy to move to Egypt, to Cairo. The prospect was enthusiastically supported by Breccia who at that time was an authoritative representative of Italian academia in Africa.
Antonella Amico introduced the correspondence by reconstructing a biographical profile of the two correspondents, also making use of unpublished documents, in particular regarding Breccia, on whose figure there had not yet been an in-depth independent study.
Francesco Pagnotta edited the corpus (51 letters and further documents from the University of Pisa and the Treccani Institute), going back to the contextual data and bibliographic information necessary for the correct understanding of the fruitful dialogue between two shores of the Mediterranean.
From a purely scientific point of view, the correspondence represents an exemplary document of the conception of the study of the classical world shared by the two interlocutors, a harmonious and totalizing vision of the science of antiquity, that Altertumswissenschaft of Wolfian memory, in which the historical disciplines , philological and archaeological proceed together towards the same goal, they contribute with equal dignity to the re-enactment of the Greco-Roman civilization in its essence and in all the expressions of its life.