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Ignazio Cazzaniga

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Ignazio Cazzaniga (31 August 1911 – 25 July 1974) was an Italian academic and classical scholar, since 1951 professor of Latin Literature at the University of Milan.

Biography

Cazzaniga was born in Sampierdarena near Genoa and studied under Luigi Castiglioni at the University of Milan. Soon after graduation he started teaching in Monza. During Second World War he served as 'ufficiale di complemento' in the Italian Army; he was captured by the Nazis after the armistice of Cassibile and sent to a concentration camp for a brief time.

He rose to the chair of Latin Literature of the University of Milan in 1951. During the 1952-1953 academic year, he taught at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, following Giorgio Pasquali's sudden death. In Milan, Cazzaniga also taught Classical philology. A second chair of Latin Literature was introduced in 1966 and assigned to Alberto Grilli, another scholar of Castiglioni.

Cazzaniga also served as academic administrator, becoming director of the Institute of Classical Philology and then of the Institute of Papyrology of his university.[1] From 1956 he was 'socio corrispondente' (correspondent) of the Istituto Lombardo, and in 1965 he became 'membro effettivo' (full member); in 1971 he joined the board of directors of the Association Internationale des Papyrologues (AIP) and also directed the series 'Testi e Documenti per lo studio dell'Antichità', published by Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino (Milan-Varese) on behalf of the University of Milan.

Among his scholars there were Edda Bresciani, an egyptologist, and latinists Isabella Gualandri (a specialist in late antique Latin literature, who de facto inherited his chair at the University of Milan) and Mario Geymonat (editor of Virgil).[2]

He died in Rapallo in 1974, following a pulmonary embolism.

Scholarship

Cazzaniga studied both Latin and Greek literature, focusing on Latin literature of the imperial age, late antique literature and hagiography; occasionally, he wrote about medieval and Byzantine authors and works.

He produced critical editions of Catullus, of the Priapeia, of the anonymous De lapsu Susannae, of works by St. Ambrose of Milan, of the Pervigilium Veneris and of Antoninus Liberalis; other than that, he edited vols. 3 and 4 of the University of Milan Papyri (Papiri Milano–Vogliano) and wrote monographs on Ambrose's homilies and treatises on virginity, on the myth of Iris in Greek literature from Homer to Nonnus and in Ovid and on the manuscript tradition of the De lapsu Susannae. He also wrote a history of Latin literature and edited translations of Nossis' works and of the fragments of Sappho and Alcaeus based on the edition by Lobel and Page.

More broadly, his interests were of very large width, for he studied also Apuleius, Virgil, the Epigrammata Bobiensia, Vibius Sequester, Ammianus Marcellinus, Statius and Dracontius, the Liber glossarum, Braulio and Papias; Pindar, Callimachus, Nicander, Parthenius and Philitas. He also planned a critical edition of the Greek Gospel of Thomas and a critical edition of all extant and spurious works by Oppian and Nicander, and occasionally wrote about Hellenistic metre.

Bibliography

Cazzaniga left no list of his own works, but Massimo Gioseffi managed to compile his bibliography:

  • Gioseffi, Massimo (1993). "Bibliografia di Ignazio Cazzaniga (1911-1974)". ACME. 46 (1): 5–23 – via academia.edu.

and also edited the reprint of two papers by Cazzaniga about Virgil:

  • Gioseffi, Massimo, ed. (2000). "Due scritti virgiliani di Ignazio Cazzaniga". E io sarò tua guida. Raccolta di saggi su Virgilio e gli studi virgiliani. Milan: LED—Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia e Diritto. pp. 13–72. ISBN 88-7916-137-7. Search this book on

His bibliography includes as many as 238 items, in Italian and Latin. Gioseffi knew of at least three more: one on Procopius, "Gothic Wars" 1.7.6, one on Pytheas and one to be included in a Festschrift to honor I. Kakridis, but couldn't find them anywhere and supposed that these works were interrupted by Cazzaniga's passing.[3] Entries followed by (†) are posthumous.

Books

Critical editions and edited volumes

  1. Catullus (1941). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. Liber. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum. Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  2. Catullus (1945). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. Liber. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum (2nd ed.). Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  3. Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. (1948). Incerti auctoris «De lapsu Susannae» («De lapsu virginis consacratae»). Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum. Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  4. S. Ambrosius Mediolanensis Episcopus (1948). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. De virginibus libri tres. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum. Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  5. S. Ambrosius Mediolanensis Episcopus (1954). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. De virginitate liber unus. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum. Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  6. Catullus (1956). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. Liber. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum (3rd ed.). Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  7. Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. (1959). Carmina ludicra Romanorum. Pervirgilium Veneris. Priapea. Corpus scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum. Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  8. Antoninus Liberalis (1962). Cazzaniga, Egnatius, ed. Metamorphoseon Synagoge. Testi e documenti per lo studio dell'antichità 3. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on
  9. Cazzaniga, Ignazio, ed. (1965). Papiri della Università degli Studi di Milano. P.Mil.Vogliano 3. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on
  10. Cazzaniga, Ignazio, ed. (1967). Papiri della Università degli Studi di Milano. P.Mil.Vogliano 4. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on

Monographs

  1. Cazzaniga, Ignazio (1948). Note ambrosiane. Appunti intorno allo stile delle omelie virginali. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on
  2. Cazzaniga, Ignazio (1950). La saga di Itis nella tradizione letteraria e mitografica greco-romana. 1. La tradizione letteraria e mitografica da Omero a Nonno Panopolitano; in appendice: Osservazioni intorno alla composizione dello Hylas di Draconzio. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on
  3. Cazzaniga, Ignazio (1950). La tradizione manoscritta del «De lapsu Susannae» (con nuovo apparato critico). Augustae Taurinorum: in aedibus Paraviae. Search this book on
  4. Cazzaniga, Ignazio (1951). La saga di Itis nella tradizione letteraria e mitografica greco-romana. 2. L'episodio di Procne nel libro sesto delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio. Ricerche intorno alla tecnica poetica ovidiana. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on
  5. Cazzaniga, Ignazio (1962). Storia della Letteratura Latina. Storia delle letterature di tutto il mondo. Milano: Nuova Accademia Editrice. Search this book on
  6. Cazzaniga, Ignazio; Grilli, Alberto (1969). Storia della Letteratura Latina. Storia delle letterature di tutto il mondo (2nd ed.). Milano: Nuova Accademia Editrice. Search this book on
  7. Cazzaniga, Ignazio; Gigante, Marcello, eds. (1977). Nosside. Calabria classica 1. Illustrated by Nanna Meda. s.l.: Calabria/Cultura. Search this book on (†)
  8. Lobel, Edgar; Page, Denys L., eds. (1978). Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta (Carminum Sapphicorum et Alcaicorum fragmenta). Translated by Cazzaniga, Ignazio. Illustrated by Nanna Meda, foreword by Giovanni Pugliese Caratelli. Milano-Varese: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino. Search this book on (†)

Articles

Journals are shortened according to the following sigla:

  • AC = Archeologia Classica (Rome)
  • ACME = ACME. Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano
  • AIPhO = Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves (Bruxelles)
  • ASNP = Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • Ath = Athenaeum (Rome)
  • Latomus = Latomus (Bruxelles)
  • RIL = Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo (Milan)
  • SA = Sant'Ambrogio (Milan)
  • SCO = Studi Classici ed Orientali (Pisa)
  • SPh = Studies in Philology (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

All entries arranged alphabetically.

Notes

  1. Gigante, Marcello (1976). "Ignazio Cazzaniga". Studia Papyrologica. 15: 26.
  2. Geymonat, Mario (1993). "Ignazio Cazzaniga". Eikasmos. 4: 151–53.
  3. Gioseffi 1993, pp. 5–6.
  4. Gioseffi 1993, p. 9.




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