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Sesto Prete (September 27, 1919 in Montefiore dell'Aso - June 15, 1991 in Cagli, Italy) was an Italian-born American philologist and paleographer.
Sesto Prete studied classical philology in Italy and Germany, graduating first in Cologne in 1944 with Gunther Jachmann presenting a thesis on the concept of humanitas in Roman comedy, and then in Bologna in 1945 with Pietro Ferrarino, discussing a thesis on the concept of "Liberalitas" in the Roman comedy.
Prete taught as a Lecturer in Latin at the University of Bologna (1946–1949) and as Professor of Latin and Greek at the high school of Forlì. In 1955 he was Scientific Collaborator in the Vatican Library. He then moved to the United States, where he was a Professor from 1956 to 1968 at Fordham University in New York City. He then taught at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, until 1990.
Many of his studies and his publications relate to the text, tradition and good fortune of Plautus and especially Terentius. Among the Latin authors he has privileged the study of Ausonius but also of Cicero, Catullus, Virgilius, the two Plinius, Priscianus, Columella, Sidonius Apollinaris, Apuleius, Tertullianus and Cyprianus. He was specialized in the field of Medieval and Humanism. He has worked extensively on Ratherius and Innocentius III, Marco Polo, Dante and Petrarca. The Latin poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and especially the religious poetry of poets active in Ferrara and Urbino, and also Bruni, Poliziano, Tito Vespasiano Strozzi and Pontano, Giulio Cesare Scaligero and Guillaume du Bartas. He also studied some humanist thinkers like Pius II, Poggio and Valla, Phoebus Capella, Giacomo and Antonio Costanzi, Joachim Camerarius and Niccolò Perotti.
He was also the promoter and conference organizer, curator and director of acts of magazines. Due to his international activity he has been responsible for fostering relationships, comparison and exchange of ideas between various countries and especially between Italy, Germany and America. In 1978 he founded the magazine "Res Publica Litterarum. Studies in the Classical Tradition", which he directed until 1991.
Bartolus de Saxoferrato was an Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law. He belonged to the school known as the commentators or postglossators. The admiration of later generations of civil lawyers is shown by the adage nemo bonus íurista nisi bartolista — no one is a good lawyer unless he is a Bartolist.
Sassoferrato is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche region of central-eastern Italy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Giorgio Levi Della Vida was an Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East.
Vincenzo Giustiniani was an Italian-Greek friar of the Dominican order of Genoese heritage.
Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus was an Italian humanist and the author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars.
Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus; Riyad, a well-educated slave girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib of 'Iraq (Mesopotamia); and a "Lady" (al-sayyida).
Giovanni Mercati was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and librarian of the Vatican Library from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1936.
Enrico Cerulli was an Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, a governor and a diplomat.
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani is an Italian historian, specializing in the history of the papacy, cultural anthropology, and in the history of the body and the relationship between nature and society during the Middle Ages.
Vincenzo Ortoleva is an Italian classical philologist.
Riccobaldo of Ferrara was a medieval Italian notary and Latin writer of the Middle Ages, a chronicler, geographer and encyclopedist. He is sometimes known in the literature as Riccobaldo da Ferrara according to the Italian form, as well as Riccobaldo Ferrarese or as Riccolbaldo.
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 La Metrica di Plauto e Terenzio published in Urbino in 2007.
Filippo Carandini was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
Amico Ricci Petrocchini, Petruccini or Petruchini (1794-1862) was an Italian art historian and marquess. He is most notable for his 1834 Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della Marca di Ancona, the first systematic survey of art history in the Marche. He also composed a number of cantatas for viola (1862).
The Pontifical Biblical Institute Library serves the scholars, faculty, and students of the Pontifical Biblical Institute (PBI). It is located in Piazza della Pilotta 35, Rome. The building was the former Palazzo Muti Papazzurri. The Library and the PBI have been part of the Gregorian Consortium since 1928 and have been included in the URBE network since 1991.
Francesco Albergotti was an Italian jurist in the 14th century.
Maria Timpanaro Cardini was an Italian philologist who studied the history of ancient philosophy and history of science.
Enrica Follieri was an Italian philologist and paleographer, specialized in Byzantine literature and hagiography. She spent her whole academic career at La Sapienza University of Rome.
Peter Schreiner is a German Byzantinist. From 1979 to 2005 he taught as a full professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne. Schreiner is one of the leading Byzantinists in German-speaking countries.
Rosario Pintaudi is an Italian papyrologist and archaeologist, who taught at the University of Messina and directed archaeological excavations at Medinet Madi (1995–2007) and Antinoöpolis (2000–...).
