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Cesare Questa

1934 – 2016

Italian classical philologist and latinist

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Lived 1934 – 2016 (aged 81–82). Cesare Questa was an Italian latinist, university teacher, classical philologist and translator.

Cesare Questa (1934-2016) was an Italian classicist particularly known for his studies of the metres of the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence. His researches over many years were summed up in his major work published in Urbino in 2007.

Questa was born in Milan, the son of Angelo Questa, an orchestra conductor, and Ada Filippini, a mezzosoprano singer.

He initially studied in Rome, at the Facoltà di Lettere della Sapienza, under the teacher Ettore Paratore. His earliest work was a thesis on the historian Tacitus. He moved to Urbino in 1963, where he mostly devoted his time to the study of Plautus. In 1970 he founded l’Istituto di Civiltà Antiche, which housed among other things a large collection of reproductions of manuscripts of Plautus and Terence. In 1996 he created the Centro Internazionale di Studi Plautini, which holds international conferences on Plautine studies.

Works by Cesare Questa For a full list of the works of Cesare Questa, see: IdRef: Questa, Cesare (1934-....).

Studi sulle fonti degli Annales di Tacito. Roma: Edizioni Dell'ateneo. (1960). Introduzione alla metrica di Plauto. Bologna: Patròn. (1967). Per la storia del testo di Plauto nell'Umanesimo. Roma : Edizioni Dell'ateneo (1968). Numeri Innumeri (1984). Parerga Plautina (1985). Semiramide redenta: archetipi, fonti classiche, censure antropologiche nel melodramma (1989). Titi Macci Plauti Cantica (1995). L’Aquila a Due Teste (1998). La Metrica di Plauto e Terenzio (2007). Urbino: Quattro Venti. Il nuovo volto di Plauto. (Lecture in Italian). (2010). "Paratore, Ettore" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 81, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana (2014).

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Important facts

Born
1934, Milan
Birth century
Died
2016, Urbino
Occupation
Latinist, university teacher, classical philologist, translator
Education
Sapienza University of Rome
Employers
University of Urbino

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Who was Cesare Questa?

Italian classical philologist and latinist (1934-2016)

When was Cesare Questa born?

Cesare Questa was born in 1934 in Milan.

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Cesare Questa died in 2016 in Urbino.

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Cesare Questa was a latinist, university teacher, classical philologist and translator.

What nationality was Cesare Questa?

Cesare Questa was Italian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Cesare Questa

· Wikidata: Q52161644

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