Giorgio Colli (1917 – 6 January 1979) was an Italian

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

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and

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. A native of

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, he taught

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Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

's university for thirty years; he edited and translated

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

's ''

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'' and

Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemolo ...

's '' Critique of Pure Reason'' for Einaudi, a major publishing house in Italy. Subsequently, he produced the first complete edition of

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...

's work (including all the posthumous fragments chronologically ordered) together with his friend

Mazzino Montinari Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 – 24 November 1986) was an Italian scholar of Germanistics. A native of Lucca, he became regarded as one of the most distinguished researchers on Friedrich Nietzsche, and harshly criticized the edition of '' The ...

. His work culminated in ''La Sapienza greca'', an edition and translation of the "

Presocratics Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of the ...

" (a term he rejected). Interrupted by his death in January 1979, it was supposed to be in eleven volumes.

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Edited in Italian by Adelphi and in French by the Éditions de l'Éclat. * ''Physis kryptesthai philei'' (''Natura ama nascondersi''), Milan 1948, IIe édition 1991; French transl. ''La Nature aime se cacher'', 1994. * ''Filosofia dell'espressione'', Milan 1969; Fr.transl. ''Philosophie de l'expression'', 1988. * ''Dopo Nietzsche'', Milan, 1974; Fr. transl. ''Après Nietzsche'', 1987, IIe éd. 2000 * ''La nascita della filosofia'', Milan, 1975; Fr. transl. ''Naissance de la philosophie'', 2003 * ''La Sapienza greca'', 3 vols. Milan 1977-1980; Fr. transl. ''La sagesse grecque'', 1990-1992 * ''La ragione errabonda. Quaderni postumi'', Milan 1982, Fr. transl. I. ''Philosophie de la distance''; II ''Philosophie du contact''; III ''Nietzsche'', 1999-2000. * ''Scritti su Nietzsche'', Milan 1980, Fr. transl. ''Écrits sur Nietzsche', 1996 * ''Per una enciclopedia di autori classici'', Milan 1983; Fr. transl. ''Pour une encyclopédie des auteurs classiques'', 1990 * ''Gorgia e Parmenide''. Adelphi, Milan, 2003 * ''Platone politico''. Adelphi, Milan, 2007 * ''Filosofi sovrumani''. Adelphi, Milan, 2009 * ''Apollineo e dionisiaco''. Adelphi, Milan, 2010

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Archivio Giorgio Colli
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istitutocolli website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colli, Giorgio 1917 births 1979 deaths Writers from Turin Hellenists Italian classical scholars 20th-century Italian philosophers Italian philologists 20th-century Italian historians Academic staff of the University of Pisa Nietzsche scholars Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche 20th-century philologists

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