DOMENICO See also:

• DOMENICO COMPARETTI (1835- )

COMPARETTI (1835- )  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome on the 27th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1835 . He studied at the university of Rome, took his degree in 1855 in natural See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, and entered his See also:

• UNCLE

uncle's See also:

• PHARMACY

pharmacy as assistant . His scanty leisure was, however, given to study . He learned See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek by himself, and gained facility in the modem See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language by conversing with the Greek students at the university . In spite of all disadvantages, he not only mastered the language, but became one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief classical scholars of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . In 1857 he published, in the Rheinisches Museum, a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of some recently discovered fragments of See also:

• HYPEREIDES (c. 390-322 B.c.)

Hypereides, with a dissertation on that orator . This was followed by a See also:

• NOTICE

notice of the annalist Granius See also:

• LICINIANUS, GRANIUS

Licinianus, and one on the oration of Hypereides on the Lamian See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . In 1859 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Greek at See also:

• PISA
• PISA, COUNCIL OF (1409)

Pisa on the recommendation of the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of Sermoneta . A few years Iater he was called to a similar See also:

• POST

post at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, remaining See also:

• EMERITUS (Lat. from emereri, to serve out one's time, to earn thoroughly)

emeritus professor at Pisa also . He subsequently took up his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in Rome as lecturer on Greek antiquities and greatly interested himself in the See also:

• FORUM (Lat. from foris, " out of doors ")

Forum excavations . He was a member of the governing bodies of the See also:

• ACADEMIES

academies of See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples and See also:

• TURIN

Turin . The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his writings is See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and varied .

Of his See also:

• WORKS

works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar and See also:

• SAPPHO (7th–6th centuries B.C.)

Sappho . He also edited the See also:

• GREAT

great inscription which contains a collection of the municipal See also:

• LAWS

laws of Gortyn in See also:

• CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete, discovered on the site of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . In the See also:

• KALEWALA, or KALEVALA

Kalewala and the Traditional See also:

• POETRY

Poetry of the Finns (See also:

• ENGLISH

English translation by I . M . Anderton, 1898) he discusses the See also:

• NATIONAL

national epic of See also:

• FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa)

Finland and its heroic songs, with a view to solving the problem whether an epic could be composed by the interweaving of such national songs . He comes to a negative conclusion, and applies this reasoning to the Homeric problem . He treats this question again in a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on the so-called Peisistratean edition of See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer (La Commissione omerica di Pisistrato, 1881) . His Researches concerning the See also:

• BOOK

Book of Sindibad have been translated 3 . 4• 5• Limited partner-See also:

• SHIPS

ships . in the Proceedings of the Folk-See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

Lore Society . His Vergil in the See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle Ages (translated into English by E . F .

Benecke, 1895) traces the See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange vicissitudes by which the great Augustan poet became successively grammatical fetich, See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet and wizard . Together with Professor Alessandro d'See also:

• ANCONA
• ANCONA, ALESSANDRO (1835– )

Ancona, See also:

• COMPARETTI, DOMENICO (1835- )

Comparetti edited a collection of Italian national songs and stories (9 vols., Turin, 1870-1891), many of which had been collected and written down by himself for the first See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time .