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DOMENICO See also:COMPARETTI (1835- ) , See also:Italian See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Rome on the 27th of See also:June 1835 . He studied at the university of Rome, took his degree in 1855 in natural See also:science and See also:mathematics, and entered his See also:uncle's See also:pharmacy as assistant . His scanty leisure was, however, given to study . He learned See also:Greek by himself, and gained facility in the modem See also: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 classical scholars of See also:Italy . In 1857 he published, in the Rheinisches Museum, a See also:translation of some recently discovered fragments of See also:Hypereides, with a dissertation on that orator . This was followed by a See also:notice of the annalist Granius See also:Licinianus, and one on the oration of Hypereides on the Lamian See also:War . In 1859 he was appointed See also:professor of Greek at See also:Pisa on the recommendation of the See also:duke of Sermoneta . A few years Iater he was called to a similar See also:post at See also:Florence, remaining See also:emeritus professor at Pisa also . He subsequently took up his See also:residence in Rome as lecturer on Greek antiquities and greatly interested himself in the See also:Forum excavations . He was a member of the governing bodies of the See also:academies of See also:Milan, See also:Venice, See also:Naples and See also:Turin . The See also:list of his writings is See also:long and varied . Of his See also:works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on See also:Pindar and See also:Sappho . He also edited the See also:great inscription which contains a collection of the municipal See also:laws of Gortyn in See also:Crete, discovered on the site of the See also:ancient See also:city . In the See also:Kalewala and the Traditional See also:Poetry of the Finns (See also:English translation by I . M . Anderton, 1898) he discusses the See also:national epic of See also: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 on the so-called Peisistratean edition of See also:Homer (La Commissione omerica di Pisistrato, 1881) . His Researches concerning the See also:Book of Sindibad have been translated 3 . 4• 5• Limited partner-See also:ships . in the Proceedings of the Folk-See also:Lore Society . His Vergil in the See also:Middle Ages (translated into English by E . F . Benecke, 1895) traces the See also:strange vicissitudes by which the great Augustan poet became successively grammatical fetich, See also:Christian See also:prophet and wizard . Together with Professor Alessandro d'See also:Ancona, See also: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 . |
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