Giuseppe Albini

Giuseppe Albini (January 22, 1863 – December 7, 1933) was an Italian philologist, Latinist and politician.

Biography Giuseppe Albini was born on January 22, 1863, in Bologna. As a student of Giosuè Carducci, he taught Latin grammar and Greek at a young age and succeeded Giovanni Battista Gandino in the chair of Latin philology, which he held until his death. At the Bolognese university, he served as dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (1912–1918) and Rector of the university (1927–1930).

He wrote poetry in Italian and in Latin, edited editions of Persius, Dante, Giovanni del Virgilio; translated the complete works of Virgil including the Georgics in hendecasyllabic verse. He also wrote his own essays.

He died on December 7, 1933, in Bologna. He is buried at the Certosa di Bologna.

Works Il Modesti e la Veneziade, Imola, Tipografia Galeati, 1886. Poesie varie, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1897. Il libro sesto dell'Odissea, Torino, Loescher, 1889. Liriche, Torino, Loescher, 1894. A Giosue Carducci, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1896. Epigrammi romani, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1896. Il canto, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1897. Le Bucoliche di Virgilio, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1898. Poesie, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1901. Il canto quarto del Paradiso, Firenze, Sansoni, 1903. Le egloghe (di Dante), Firenze, Sansoni, 1905. Il Giorno di Parini, Firenze, Sansoni, 1907. I Carracci, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1909. Ottobre italico, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1909. Carmina, Tipografia Gallatania, 1909. Il Leopardi cento anni fa, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1917. Ascensioni eroiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1921. L'Eneide di Virgilio, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1925. Le Georgiche, Roma, Sapientia, 1931. Virgilio, l'anima e l'arte, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 1931. Ecloga responsiva (di Giovanni del Virgilio), Firenze, Olschki, 1933.

Honors

Order of the Crown of Italy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus