Vincenzo Di Benedetto
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Vincenzo Di Benedetto | |
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| Born | 12 January 1934 |
| Died | 20 July 2013 (aged 79) |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Classical scholars |
| Academic advisors | Aurelio Peretti, Augusto Campana, Alessandro Perosa, Ignazio Cazzaniga, Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Vittorio Bartoletti, Eduard Fraenkel[1] |
| Notable students | Alessandro Lami |
Vincenzo Di Benedetto (12 January 1934 – 19 or 20 July 2013) was an Italian classical philologist.
Born to the tailor Saverio Di Benedetto and his wife Maria Gaetana (née Santoro) he grew up in Saracena (Calabria) and acquired a sound knowledge of Latin and Classical Greek at the Liceo Classico in Castrovillari.[2] Having received a scholarship from the Scuola Normale Superiore, he went on to study from 1952 to 1958 in Pisa and Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Apart from his academic mentors, he also acknowledged the influence of his friend, Latinist Sebastiano Timpanaro and his mother, historian of philosophy Maria Timpanaro Cardini.[3] From 1969 onwards until his retirement in 2006 he taught Greek literature at the University of Pisa, and, from 1971 until 1993, Classical Philology at the Scuola Normale. In 1996, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and used a wheelchair since 2006. Despite this, he managed to continue working until shortly before his death.[4]
On May 14, 1972, he married philologist Diana Fiorini; their son Saverio was born on November 27, 1972.
