Francesco Novati

Francesco Novati ( Cremona, 1859 -

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, 1915) was an Italian historian and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

. Novati taught in the University of Palermo and Genoa, and in 1890 he became a professor of history and

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at the Regia Accademia Scientifico-Letteraria of

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. In 1883, he founded the ''Giornale Storico delle Letteratura Italiana'' with Rodolfo Renier and Arturo Graf. He also collaborated with many other magazines and newspapers: ''

La Perseveranza ''La Perseveranza'' was a daily newspaper founded in Milan, the capital of Lombardy, on 29 November 1859 and published till 20 May 1922. It was generally representative of the centre-right political establishment, though there were occasions when ...

'', ''Il Libro e la stampa'', ''La lettura'', and ''Il Corriere della Sera e l’Archivio Storico Lombardo'', a publication of the

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which Novati joined in 1879, later to become adviser, vice president, and finally president in 1899. The library and archive of Novati letters were donated to the Biblioteca Braidense of Milan in 1916. Among his works are ''Il Repertorio diplomatico Visconteo'', ''Flos duellatorum: Il Fior di battaglia di maestro Fiore dei Liberi da Premariacco'', and Peter and Alessandro Verri's edition of ''Il Carteggio''. 1859 births 1915 deaths Writers from Cremona 20th-century Italian historians Italian philologists Academic staff of the University of Palermo Academic staff of the University of Genoa 19th-century Italian historians {{Italy-historian-stub