Mariàngela Vilallonga Vives (Girona, 3 April 1952) is a Spanish professor of Latin
philology
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at the University of Girona. Between 2017 and 2019 she was second vice-president of the Institute of Catalan Studies, an institution where she held several senior positions. On 25 March 2019 she became the minister of culture in the
Quim Torra
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Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Her term as minister of culture ended on 3 September 2020.
Her father was the tailor Josep Vilallonga. Born in Girona, she grew up in Llagostera. She studied primary school in the Carmelites of the municipality and the elementary baccalaureate at the Institut de Girona. Later she studied at the Institut Jaume Vicens Vives in Girona. She began a degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Girona, and graduated in
Classical Philology
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at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In September 1974 she defended her dissertation, La estructura omfàlica a l'epístola Ad Pisones d'Horaci, directed by Àngel Anglada Anfruns. In the same year she began to work as a teacher at the University College of Girona and married in 1975.
University
With a PhD in classical philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she is professor of Latin philology at the University of Girona and director of the
Maria Àngels Anglada
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Carles Fages de Climent
Carles Fages de Climent (1902 in Figueres – 1968) was a writer, poet and journalist from the Empordà, a historical region of Catalonia, Spain. He was born in Figueres on May 16, 1902. In Figueres' high school, he met Salvador Dalí, starting ...
Chair of Literary Heritage, since its creation in 2004, and of the Literary Heritage Research Group. She has directed research projects on the relations between the humanists of the
Crown of Aragon
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and Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. In this field, the book La literatura latina en Cataluña en el siglo XV and his contributions on the cardinal and
bishop of Gerona
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She coordinates the Studia Humanitatis working group, in which fourteen researchers from Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Spain participate. He has created a virtual library where biographies of the main Catalan humanists and some of their Latin texts can be found.
Academy
Since 28 February 2005 she has been a numerary member of the Institute of Catalan Studies with the number 255, and since 2017 she has been the institution's vice-president. She had already been previously, between 11 November 2010 and 2013, replacing Joan Solà, who died on 27 October 2010.
She has been a member of the Governing Board and the Advisory Council of the Institució de les Lettres Catalanes since 2015. She has been a member of the Arts and Culture Council of Girona (2008–2011), member of the School Council of Catalonia (2011–2015), member of the Social Council of Culture of the Government of Catalonia (2014–2015), president of the Advisory Council of the CRUSCAT Network (2010–2015), member of the Organising Committee of the Commemorations of the Government of Catalonia (2011–2013) and coordinator of the "Leaves" of the Journal of Girona (1985–2008).
Politics
On 22 March 2019 she was announced as the future Minister of Culture in Quim Torra's government, replacing
Laura Borràs
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. Borràs left the post to run as an independent candidate in the Spanish general elections in April 2019. In 2020 some controversy was caused in reference to the in her opinion excessive use of Spanish on
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, making particular reference to a new bilingual series, Drama. In September of the same year she was relieved of her post.
Publications
She is the author of more than a dozen monographs and books. She has also translated
Rainer M. Rilke
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's French Poems (2011). She has collaborated with several media (El Punt, Presencia, Revista de Girona, Sierra d'Or, La Vanguardia, Avui, Ara.)
* ''Vida i obra de Jeroni Pau (Resum de Tesi Doctoral)'' (1984)
* ''Jeroni Pau. Obres'' (dos volums, 1986, )
* ''Els arbres'' (1986)
* ''Dos opuscles de
Pere Miquel Carbonell
Pere Miquel Carbonell (1434–1517) was a Catalan historian, humanist, notary, calligrapher
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'' (1988)
* ''Llengua i literatura de l'Edat Mitjana al Renaixement'' (1991) amb Albert Rossich
* ''La literatura llatina a Catalunya al segle XV. Repertori bio-bibliogràfic'' (1993, )
* ''El Renaixement i l'Humanisme'' (2002, )
* ''Atles literari de les terres de Girona (segles XIX i XX)'' (2003) amb Narcís-Jordi Aragó
* ''Johannes Burckard''. ''Dietari secret'' (2003)
* ''Recrear Rodoreda Romanyà'' (2008)
Awards and recognitions
On 26 April 2016, she received the Cross of Sant Jordi for her "research focused on the Latin humanistic literature of the Crown of Aragon".