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DOMENICO COMPARETTI (1835- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOMENICO

COMPARETTI (1835- )  ,
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Italian scholar, was born at Rome on the 27th of
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June 1835 . He studied at the university of Rome, took his degree in 1855 in natural science and mathematics, and entered his
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uncle's
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pharmacy as assistant . His scanty leisure was, however, given to study . He learned Greek by himself, and gained facility in the modem 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 chief classical scholars of Italy . In 1857 he published, in the Rheinisches Museum, a
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translation of some recently discovered fragments of Hypereides, with a dissertation on that orator . This was followed by a
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notice of the annalist Granius Licinianus, and one on the oration of Hypereides on the Lamian War . In 1859 he was appointed professor of Greek at Pisa on the recommendation of the duke of Sermoneta . A few years Iater he was called to a similar
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post at Florence, remaining emeritus professor at Pisa also . He subsequently took up his residence in Rome as lecturer on Greek antiquities and greatly interested himself in the Forum excavations . He was a member of the governing bodies of the
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academies of Milan, Venice, Naples and
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Turin . The list of his writings is long and varied .

Of his

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works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on Pindar and Sappho . He also edited the
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great inscription which contains a collection of the municipal
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laws of Gortyn in Crete, discovered on the site of the ancient city . In the Kalewala and the Traditional
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Poetry of the Finns (
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English translation by I . M . Anderton, 1898) he discusses the
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national epic of 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
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treatise on the so-called Peisistratean edition of Homer (La Commissione omerica di Pisistrato, 1881) . His Researches concerning the
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Book of Sindibad have been translated 3 . 4• 5• Limited partner-
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ships . in the Proceedings of the Folk-Lore Society . His Vergil in the
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Middle Ages (translated into English by E . F .

Benecke, 1895) traces the

strange vicissitudes by which the great Augustan poet became successively grammatical fetich, Christian prophet and wizard . Together with Professor Alessandro d'Ancona, 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 time .

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