Sebastiano Timpanaro (September 5, 1923 in

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– November 26, 2000 in

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. He was also a long-time

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who made important contributions to

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.Enrico Ghidetti, Alessandro Pagnini, ''Sebastiano Timpanaro e la cultura del secondo Novecento'', Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005, p. 364.

Selected publications

* ''La filologia di Giacomo Leopardi'' (1955) * ''La genesi del metodo del Lachmann'' (1963) * ''Classicismo e illuminismo nell'Ottocento italiano'' (1965) * ''Sul materialismo'' (1970) * ''Il lapsus freudiano: psicanalisi e critica testuale'' (1974) * ''Contributi di filologia e di storia della lingua latina'' (1978) * ''Aspetti e figure della cultura ottocentesca'' (1980) * ''Antileopardiani e neomoderati nella sinistra italiana'' (1982) * ''Il socialismo di Edmondo De Amicis: lettura del "Primo maggio"'' (1984) * ''Per la storia della filologia virgiliana antica'' (1986) * ''La fobia romana e altri scritti su Freud e Meringer'', a cura di C.A. Madrignani, ETS (1992) * ''La fobia romana e altri scritti su Freud e Meringer'', a cura di A. Pagnini, ETS (2006) * ''Nuovi contributi di filologia e storia della lingua latina'' (1994) * ''Nuovi studi sul nostro Ottocento'' (1995) * ''Virgilianisti antichi e tradizione indiretta'' (2001; posthumous) * ''Il verde e il rosso: scritti militanti, 1966-2000'' (2001; posthumous)

English translations

* ''On materialism'' (Lawrence Garner, tr., 1975) * ''The Freudian slip: psychoanalysis and textual criticism'' (Kate Soper, tr., 1976) * ''The genesis of Lachmann's method'' (Glenn W. Most, ed. and tr., 2005) * "The Pessimistic Materialism of Giacomo Leopardi".

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; I/116, July–August 1979: 29–50. * "Considerations of Materialism".

; I/85 May/June 1974: 3-22.

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Selected publications

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