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Ignazio Cazzaniga
Ignazio Cazzaniga (31August 191125July 1974) was an Italian Classics, classicist, Philology, philologist and university professor, who taught Latin literature and Classical philology at the University of Milan. A prolific textual critic, he published critical editions of Catullus, Ambrose, St. Ambrose and Antoninus Liberalis. Biography Born in Sampierdarena, he enrolled at the University of Milan in 1928, where studied classics and graduated in 1933, tutored by Luigi Castiglioni (classicist), Luigi Castiglioni; his dissertation was titled "Il mito di Procne e Philomela, Filomela nella tradizione greca e romana" [Procne's and Philomela's Myth in Greek and Roman Tradition]. After graduating, he began teaching in Monza high school and served as complement non-commissioned officer in the Italian Army. He fought in Greece during the World War II; captured in Rhodes, he was sent to Germany as prisoner and remained there until 1945. In 1951, Cazzaniga was nominated Professor of Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampierdarena
Sampierdarena (also San Pier d'Arena; Ligurian: San Pè d'ænn-a) is a major port and industrial area of Genoa, in northwest Italy. With San Teodoro it forms the West Central (Centro Ovest) ''municipio''. Geography Sampierdarena lies on the coast about west of the centre of Genoa. In 2017 the population was made of 43,463 inhabitants. History Sampierdarena was an ancient fishing village, named after the church of San Pietro d'Arena ("St. Peter of the Sand"). During the Italian Renaissance it became a residential area, with great palaces being built such as the Palazzo Imperiale Scassi, designed by Domenico Ponzello, Domenico and Giovanni Ponzello according to the style of Galeazzo Alessi and for this reason believed in the past to be a work of Alessi himself and the Palazzo Spinola di San Pietro (whose designer is unknown), one of those drawn by the painter Peter Paul Rubens in the book Palazzi di Genova, published in Antwerp in 1622. After the coming of the railways (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
