Ottavio Besomi
Professor
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Ottavio Besomi has been full Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Technology since 1989. He retired in April, 2002. Born 1937, 1958-1963: University of Fribourg, Italian Literature and Romance Philology. 1963 Doctorate: Ricerche intorno alla 'Lira' di G. B. Marino. 1964-1965: Post-graduate formation in romance and modern Philology at the University Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Habilitation: Studi per un'edizione critica dei 'Gesta Ferdinandi regis' di Lorenzo Valla. From 1969: Assistant Professor for Italian Literature at the University of Zurich. From 1977: Professor for Italian Literature at the University of Zurich. From 1989: Professor for Italian Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, in Zurich.
Research Interest
Main research interests in Philology and Textual Critics: Italian Humanism (Lorenzo Valla); Baroque Literature (Studies and Publications about Marino, Tassoni, Galileo); 19th and 20th centuries: Leopardi (critical edition of the Operette morali and of the diachronical Concordance), De Sanctis, Croce. Publication in course: ATLI (Thematical Archives of the Italian Lyrics).
Publications
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G. LEOPARDS, An Italian speech about romantic poetry. Critical edition (in collaboration with D. Continati, P. De Marchi, C. Giambonini, R. Martinoni, B. Moser, P. Parachini, L. Pedroia, G. Pedrojetta), Bellinzona 1988; XXXIX + 233 p.
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GB MARINO, Sea reefs. Edition and Comment (in collaboration with C. Marchi and A. Martini), Modena-Ferrara 1988; 155 p.
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Petrarca codes in Swiss libraries, Padua 1967; 61
