Ettore Lo Gatto ( Italian: Ettore Lo Gatto ; May 20, 1890 , Naples - March 16, 1983 , Rome ) - one of the founders of Italian Slavic studies of the 20th century, a researcher of Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech and Belarusian literature, translator into Italian works of F. Dostoevsky , A. Pushkin , other Slavic writers. Member of the National Academy of dei Lincei (Accademia dei Lincei) in Rome (Italy), corresponding member of many European academies.
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Biography
Born in Naples (Italy). He began his scientific activity in the field of German studies . During the First World War, he studied Russian. In 1919 he published his first translations from Russian, continuing the tradition begun in Angelo de Gubernatis (1840-1913) and Domenico Champoli (1855-1929). The following year, he founded the Slavic magazine “Russia” (“Russia”; 1920-1926). He became an employee of the Research Institute of Eastern Europe, founded in 1921 in Rome, and initiated the opening of Slavic departments at universities in Italy. In 1926 he created the journal "Rivista delle letterature slave" ("Review of Slavic Literature"; 1926-32). He was co-editor of the magazine L'Europa Orientale (Eastern Europe). He worked as a professor of Russian language and literature at universities in the cities of Padua , Rome (Sapienza), Naples.
Works in the field of literary criticism and social history
In the field of literary criticism and social history, he published The History of Russian Literature (v. 1-7, 1927-45; one of the chapters of this work is entitled Literature of the Kiev Era), History of Russia (1946), Serfdom and the Liberation Movement in Russia ”(1946),“ The History of Russian Theater ”(1952),“ The History of Modern Russian Literature ”(1958),“ The Myth of St. Petersburg ”(1960),“ Russians in Italy. From the 17th century. to the present day "(1971).
In the work "Italian Artists in Russia" (vols. 1-3, 1927, 1934, 1943) he placed a lot of information about the activities of Italians in Little Russia in the 18-20 centuries. In 1931 and 1960 he visited the Ukrainian SSR, regarding his Slavic mission as a means of "bringing the Italian and Ukrainian peoples closer together."
Died in Rome.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119376652 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
Sources and Literature
- "M. N. Varvartsev." Lo Gatto (Ettore) // Encyclopedia of the history of Ukraine: in 10 volumes / editorial board: V. A. Smoliy (chairman) and others; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine. - K.: Science. Thought, 2009. - T. 6: La - Mi. - S. 248. - ISBN 978-966-00-1028-1 .
- Emanuela Sgambati, LO GATTO, Ettore, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, LXV volume, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2005. URL consultato il 07/21/2013.
- D'Amelia, Antonella; Catteau, Jacques (1983). À la mémoire de Ettore Lo Gatto. Revue des études slaves (en francés) 55 (4): 643-658. ISSN 2117-718X. JSTOR 43492967.
- D'Amelia, Antonella (1987). "Un maestro della slavistica italiana: Ettore lo Gatto." Europa Orientalis (en italiano) (6): 329-382. ISSN 0392-4580.