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Bruno Gentili (20 November 1915 – 7 January 2014) was an Italian classical scholar and philologist, Emeritus at the University of Urbino.

A prolific scholar, Gentili was an expert of Ancient Greek poetry and metre.

Biography

Born in Valmontone, Gentili spent his youth in Abruzzo and graduated from the Liceo Classico "Ovidio" in Sulmona. He enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome, where he studied Greek Literature under Ettore Romagnoli and Byzantine Philology under Silvio Giuseppe Mercati. He graduated, tutored by Mercati, with a thesis in Byzantine Philology on the topic "Studio critico intorno alla storia di Agatia e alla sua tradizione manoscritta" . Soon after graduation, Gentili became assistant to Gennaro Perrotta (Romagnoli's successor), teaching Greek and Latin Metre.

In 1956 Gentili became Professor of Greek Literature in the newly-founded Faculty of Humanities of the University of Urbino, explicitly nominated by the Chancellor Carlo Bo. He was nominated Emeritus soon after his retirement (1991).

Gentili died aged 98 in Rome, in 2014. His second wife was Franca Perusino, Emerita of Classical Philology at the University of Urbino.

Research

Gentili was a specialist of Ancient Greek poetry and metre. He wrote extensively on poets such as Alcman, Bacchylides and Pindar. With Carlo Prato he edited the Teubner edition of all the extant fragments of the Greek elegiac poets, and with some of his disciples promoted the critical edition, with Italian translation and philological commentary, of Pindar's odes.

Publications

• Gentili, Bruno (1944). "I codici e le edizioni delle "Storie" di Agatia". Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo e Archivio Muratoriano. 58: 163–176.
• Gentili, Bruno (1981). "Eric R. Dodds mentitore?". Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. 7 (31): 175–176. JSTOR 20538671 – via JSTOR.
• Gentili, Bruno; Prato, Carolus (Carlo), eds. (1988) . Poetarum elegiacorum Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta. Vol. I (2 ed.). Leipzig: BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-322-00457-0.
• Gentili, Bruno; Prato, Carolus (Carlo), eds. (2008) . Poetarum elegiacorum Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta. Vol. II (2 ed.). Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 978-3-598-71702-4.
• Pindaro (2012) . Gentili, Bruno; Angeli Bernardini, Paola; Cingano, Ettore; Giannini, Pietro (eds.). Le Pitiche (5 ed.). Roma – Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla – Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. ISBN 978-88-04-39143-2.
• Pindaro (2013). Gentili, Bruno; Catenacci, Carmine; Giannini, Pietro; Lomiento, Liana (eds.). Le Olimpiche. Roma – Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla – Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. ISBN 978-88-04-62712-8.

References

1. Catenacci (2014), Gentili (1981), p. 175
2. Later reworked and published: Gentili (1944).
3. Catenacci (2014), p. 449.
4. PEG I (1988), PEG II (2008).
5. Pindaro (2012), Pindaro (2013).

Bibliography

• Catenacci, Carmine (2014). "Ricordo di Bruno Gentili" (PDF). Eikasmós. 25: 447–454.
• Musti, Domenico. "Gentili, Bruno". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.

• Italian classical scholars
• Classical scholars
• Italian academics