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1 Contini, Gianfranco (Domodossola, 1912–1990) was an Italian philologist, academic and literary critic, considered one of the most important scholars in the fields of Romance and Italian Philology of the 20th century.
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3 After his graduation in Pavia (1932) he studied in Torino and Paris (1934–36). Then he taught French Literature and Romance Philology in the universities of Pisa, Fribourg and Florence.
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5 Amongst Contini's main contributions and critical editions (the latter mainly in the field of Old Italian literature) are the first complete edition of Italian poetry of the 13th century (//Poeti del Duecento//, 1960), his essays about Dante Alighieri (//Un'idea di Dante//, 1970), and his studies about the methodology of [[text editing>>doc:stemmatology.Ecdotics.WebHome]] (in Italian “ecdotica”, in French “ecdotique”) and textual criticism (//Breviario di ecdotica//, 1986). Contini also devoted himself to the study and valorisation of Italian poets and writers of the 20th century, such as Eugenio Montale and Carlo Emilio Gadda.
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7 The Italian school of philology, of which Contini is an eminent member, can be called [[neo-Lachmannian>>doc:stemmatology.Neo-Lachmannian Philology.WebHome]] (in a different meaning than that given by Ben Salemans to this term). This school is characterised by the combination of a historicist / reconstructionist methodology with a strong interest in linguistics, codicology, history of manuscripts. The Italian school remained mostly immune to French [[Bédierism>>doc:stemmatology.Bédier, Joseph.WebHome]] and French-American [[New philology>>doc:stemmatology.New Philology.WebHome]].
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9 Contini coined the concept [[diffraction>>doc:stemmatology.Diffraction.WebHome]].
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11 ==== **Works by Contini** ====
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13 – Contini, Gianfranco. 1986. //Breviario di ecdotica. //Milano: Riccardo Ricciardi. – Reprinted, Torino: Einaudi, 1990 (Einaudi Paperbacks, Letteratura, vol. 222).
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15 ==== **Works on Contini** ====
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17 – Arduini, Beatrice. 2010. “Contini, Gianfranco.” In //Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends//, edited by Albrecht Classen, 2249–2253. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
18 – Zinelli, Fabio. 2006. “L’édition des textes médiévaux italiens en Italie.” In //Pratiques philologiques en Europe: Actes de la journée d’études organisée à l’École des Chartes le 23 septembre 2005//, edited by Frédéric Duval, 77–114. Études et rencontres de l’École des Chartes, vol. 21. Paris: École des Chartes.
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