Chiara Frugoni Explained

Chiara Frugoni
Birth Date:4 February 1940
Birth Place:Pisa, Italy
Death Place:Pisa, Italy
Occupation:Historian
Alma Mater:Sapienza University of Rome
Employer:University of Pisa
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Awards:Viareggio Prize (1994)

Chiara Frugoni (4 February 1940 – 9 April 2022) was an Italian historian and academic, specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay, Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate.

Biography

Chiara Frugoni was born in Pisa on 4 February 1940. Her father was the medievalist, Arsenio Frugoni.[1] She spent time during childhood and youth in a sanatorium due to suffering from tuberculosis.

Frugoni graduated from Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1964 with a thesis entitled Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana (the Three Living and the Three Dead in Italian medieval tradition), published two years later in the "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei".[2] In it, she searched for a working method that took equal account of both texts and images, a method she always considered important,[3] in line with her conviction that "the image speaks".[4]

She married Salvatore Settis in 1965, with whom she had three children.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antorio Gnoli, 'Chiara Frugoni: studio San Francesco ed ho portato il cilicio, ma le suore sono state la mia scuola dilaicismo', La Repubblica, 19 January 2014. 19 January 2014. it.
  2. "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei", anno CCCLXIV - 1967, pag. 145-251.
  3. Web site: Curriculum di Chiara Frugoni.
  4. Web site: viediscampo.com.
  5. News: Ad Antonio Tabucchi il Premio Viareggio per la narrativa . Pampaloni . Lorenza . 25 June 1994 . . 4 January 2020 . it.
  6. Web site: Premio letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci. 3 January 2020. 19 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140719121618/http://www.premioletterarioviareggiorepaci.it/premi/vincitori/1-Premio%20Letterario%20Viareggio-R%C3%A8paci. dead.
  7. http://www.mondimedievali.net/Rec/invenzioni.htm Recensione
  8. http://www.mondimedievali.net/Rec/chiara.htm Recensione