Francesco Becchi

Biography

Francesco Becchi graduated in 1972 with the highest marks and praise   in "Greek Literature" at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Florence, discussing with Prof. Adelmo Barigazzi, head of the Greek Literature Chair, a thesis on Plutarch's moral virtues .     Appointed in 1972 as a   tutor at the Chair of "Greek Language and Civilization" at the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Florence, the following year he was the    winner of a scholarship for didactic and scientific training at the Chair of "Greek Literature" of the then Institute of Classical Philosophy "G.Pasquali" of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Florence. Having been the contractor's role in 1975, it was set up in 1980 as a confirmed university researcher, exceeding the eligibility for the "Greek Language and Literature" sector.     Since then he has been continuously serving as a researcher first confirmed by the Latino Institute of the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Florence, where he has conducted Greek language and syntax exercises for the Chair of "Greek Language and Civilization" of which he also held the supplement in the aa. 1995-1996, and subsequently at the Department of Sciences of Ancientity "G. Pasquali" of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Florence, where he has always worked with the Greek Literature Chair also covering 'Teaching of "History of Greek Language". In 2003 he passed the competition of Associate Professor of Greek Literature (although due to the ministerial blockade of the turn over, he was able to take up duty only on February 1, 2005), was called by the University of Florence, where at the Dpt. of Science of Ancientity "G. Pasquali "continued the teaching of" History of the Greek language ". In 2008 he got the confirmation in the role and from the aa. 2008-2009 covers the teaching of "Greek Language" (for the historical address) and "Greek Literature" (for the philosophical address).

Research Interest

The research activity carried out in recent years mainly concerned, though not exclusively, the Textuberlieferung of Plutarch Morals and the ethical-philosophical thought of Cheronea's intellectual. The main purpose was the publication of a new critical edition with extensive introduction, translation and commentary on Peri; tuvchı of Plutarch, based on a systematic reconnection of all witnesses of the manuscript tradition useful to the textus constitution , including the two Moscow codes which are the basis of the reviewplanudea. In spite of the great editorial work carried out in the twentieth century, the apparatus of the critical editions, including that of the Teubner edition, from which all the others depend, is far from reliable, given the high number of errors they present, some of which also glossy and pedissequely handed down from one edition to the other. Through a recollection of all the useful witnesses of De Fortuna's traditionthe Greek text has been laid down with its critical apparatus, with the aim of making mistakes and inaccuracies present in modern editions. The Greek text is accompanied by a translation into the Italian side.The critical edition is accompanied by an introduction devoted to the manuscript tradition, the history of the notion of tuvch in its historical development and the interpretation of the script, which over the centuries has been subjected to opposing evaluations and interpretations by scholars who they have now judged it as philosophical, now not different from the principles of Aristotelian ethics. The Greek text and the Italian translation follow a broad commentary, which addresses all the textual, philological, historical-philosophical problems related to the interpretation of the script.history of a name , cit.), with which the Cheronea intellectual argues, and study the value and role played by the notion of tuvch within Moralia and the Vitae (see F. Becchi, The notion oftuvch in Plutarch , cit.), but also and above all place this plutarcheo booklet within the Moralia and link it with works of other intellectuals more or less coyote to Plutarch, such as, for example,Alexander of Afrodisia, committed to defending the same values ​​from the attacks of modern schools of thought. Some of the results achieved have been the subject of communications held at Plutarch's International Conferences.