Renata Lavagnini
Renata Lavagnini | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 Palermo, Italy |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Byzantine studies Hellenic studies |
| Institutions | University of Palermo |
| Main interests | Constantine Cavafy |
Renata Lavagnini (born in 1942 in Palermo) is an Italian Neo-Hellenist and Byzantinist and a professor of Modern Greek language and literature at the University of Palermo.
Biography[edit]
She was born in 1942 in Palermo. Her father was the eminent Byzantinist Bruno Lavagnini.[1][2] She had a sister named Maria.[2] After her studies, Lavagnini graduated from the University of Palermo in 1965 and began teaching at this institution.[3]
The researcher had a particular interest in Constantine Cavafy, whom she extensively studied.[1][4][5][6] She managed to uncover about thirty of his unfinished poems that had not yet been published.[1][7] She established the editio princeps of a number of Cavafy's works.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Bowersock, G. W. (1996). "The New Cavafy: Unfinished Poems 1918–1932". The American Scholar. 65 (2): 243–257. ISSN 0003-0937. JSTOR 41212474.
- ^ a b "LAVAGNINI, Bruno - Enciclopedia". Treccani (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2023-06-20. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
- ^ "Lavagnini, Renata – Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
- ^ Bowersock, G. W. (1983). "Cavafy and Apollonios". Grand Street. 2 (3): 180–189. doi:10.2307/25006514. ISSN 0734-5496. JSTOR 25006514.
- ^ Lambropoulos, Vassilis (2003). "The Greeks of Art and the Greeks of History". Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). 11. ISSN 1039-2831.
- ^ Clay, Diskin (1987). "C. P. Cavafy: The Poet in the Reader". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 5 (1): 65–83. doi:10.1353/mgs.2010.0113. ISSN 1086-3265.
- ^ Savidis, George P. (1985). "The Burden of the Past and the Greek Poet". Grand Street. 5 (1): 164–190. doi:10.2307/25006816. ISSN 0734-5496. JSTOR 25006816.
- ^ Bowersock, G. W. (1981). "The Julian Poems of C. P. Cavafy". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 7: 89–104. doi:10.1179/030701381806931488. ISSN 0307-0131.
