Maurizio Bettini

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Maurizio Bettini (born 24 July 1947) is an Italian philologist, anthropologist and novelist. He is a professor of classical philology at the University of Siena and director of Siena's Centre for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World.

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Maurizio Bettini received his laurea in classical languages from the University of Pisa in 1970. His academic career has focused on the study of ancient Greek and Latin culture. He was a professore incaricato of Greek and Latin grammar at the University of Pisa from 1975 to 1980, professore straordinario of Latin literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice from 1981 to 1984, and is a full professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Siena since 1985. He was the dean of Siena's faculty of literature and philosophy from 1986 to 1995. [1] In 1986 he co-founded Siena's Centre for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World, of which he remains the director. [2] [3]

Since 1992, he has been a recurring visiting professor at the Classics Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a visiting professor at other universities in the United States, France, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Israel, China and the United Kingdom. [1]

For his novel Le coccinelle di Redún, he was awarded the Mondello Prize in 2004. In 2013 he was awarded the Mondello Prize for Literary Criticism for his book Vertere. Un'antropologia della traduzione nella cultura antica. [3]

Selected bibliography

Works in English translation

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References

  1. 1 2 "Maurizio Bettini". Centro AMA, University of Siena . Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. "Maurizio Bettini". University of California at Berkeley: Classics Department. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Bettini, Maurizio". Treccani.it (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 12 July 2020.