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Remigio Sabbadini
1850–1934
A leading Italian classical philologist, he helped shape the study of Latin literature and Renaissance humanism through decades of teaching, research, and manuscript work. His career carried him from modest beginnings in Veneto to major university posts and national scholarly recognition.
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Vita di Guarino Veronese
by Remigio Sabbadini
About the author
Born in Sarego, near Vicenza, on November 23, 1850, Remigio Sabbadini came from a farming family and studied first in Veneto before moving to Florence, where he completed a degree in Latin literature with a thesis on Virgil. He went on to teach in secondary schools and then became a university professor, holding posts in Catania and later in Milan.
Sabbadini is remembered as an important Italian philologist and Latinist, especially for his work on the transmission of classical texts and on Renaissance humanism. He studied manuscripts, explored how ancient authors were read and recovered, and wrote influential scholarly works that helped establish humanistic philology as a field in Italy.
His achievements brought him wide academic recognition, including membership in major Italian learned societies. He died in Pisa on February 7, 1934, leaving behind a reputation as one of the central scholars of Latin literary criticism in Italy of his time.