Lorenzo Minio-Paluello

Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, FBA (21 September 1907 – 6 May 1986) was an Italian academic, linguist and translator. He was involved in analysing and translating medieval Latin versions of the ancient Greek philosophical texts. From 1939, he worked in England.

Early life, education and librarianship in Italy Born in 1907 in Belluno, he belonged to old patrician family, though his father Michelangelo Minio was a science teacher and later a curator at the Natural History Museum of Venice. His mother was Ersilia Bisson. He attended the Ginnasio-Liceo Foscarini, where he studied classics and developed an aptitude for languages. He then attended the University of Padua, graduating in 1929, after which he worked as an assistant librarian at the university, and studied philosophy and Semitic languages at the Sorbonne and Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Academic career in Italy and England In 1930, the Fascist government in Italy made all academic appointees swear loyalty to the regime. Minio-Paluello refused and was subsequently forced to leave his post in the library in 1932,

As The Times noted, Minio-Paluello was "one of the foremost scholars to leave Italy in the 1940s [sic] in disgust at the Fascist régime".

Minio-Paluello's work on editing the second volume of the Aristoteles Latinus series was his most important contribution to scholarship and, two years after its publication, he was elected a fellow of the British Academy (in 1957). He died on 6 May 1986.