Marco Santagata Explained

Marco Santagata
Birth Date:28 April 1947
Birth Place:Zocca, Italy
Death Place:Pisa, Italy
Resting Place:Cimitero di Zocca
Nationality:Italian
Occupation:Academic
Writer

Marco Santagata (28 April 1947 – 9 November 2020) was an Italian academic, writer, and literary critic.[1]

Biography

Santagata studied classical literature at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he graduated in 1970. He became a professor of literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice before returning to his alma mater, the University of Pisa, in 1984 as a professor of philology, literature, and linguistics.[2] He was one of the most important Italian specialists of Dante Alighieri and Petrarch.

Marco Santagata died in Pisa on 9 November 2020, at the age of 73, after contracting COVID-19 amid the ongoing pandemic in Italy.[3] He is buried at the Cimitero di Zocca in the province of Modena.[4]

Works

Novels

Essays

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morto lo scrittore Marco Santagata. Il rettore dell'università: "Un grande intellettuale e un amico generoso". 9 November 2020. Il Tirreno. Italian.
  2. Web site: Addio a Marco Santagata, l'intellettuale poliedrico. 9 November 2020. Università di Pisa. Italian.
  3. Web site: È morto Marco Santagata, scrittore e storico della letteratura. 9 November 2020. La Repubblica. Italian.
  4. Web site: Marco Santagata (1947-2020). 2020-12-04. Find a Grave. en.
  5. Book: Dante — Marco Santagata. 11 April 2016 . Belknap Press . 9780674504868 .
  6. Web site: Opere premiate nelle precedenti edizioni. Premio Campiello. Italian.
  7. Web site: Premio Stresa di Narrativa: tutti i vincitori dal 1976 ad oggi. 25 July 2019. SoloLibri.net. Italian.
  8. Web site: Archivio Premio Giovanni Comisso. Premio Lettarario Giovanni Comisso. 13 January 2019. Italian.