- Language : Turkish
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 6054640577
- ISBN-13 : 978-6054640577
Vitti, Mario was born on August 18, 1926 in Istanbul, Turkey. Arrived in Italy, 1946. Son of Costantino V. and Roxane Aravanopoulo. Married Alexandra Perkiza, October 2, 1955. Children: Massimo, Paolo. child: Paolo Vitti, Massimo Vitti
1946 Liceo Italiano , Bachelor of Arts
1956 Faculty of Right , Master
1962 Institute Orientale , Doctor of Philosophy
1957 - 1962 Lecturer , Institute Orientale Naples, Italy
1968 - 1988 professor , University Palermo, Italy
1988 professor , University Palermo, Italy
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Sorbonne, Paris, 1995. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Nicosia, Cyprus, 2000.
Mario Vitti is an Italian Neo-Greek scholar and Professor Emeritus of Neo-Greek Studies at the Università della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy.
Of Greek descent on her mother's side, Vitti grew up in the Greek community of Constantinople and writes both Greek and Italian eloquently. Shortly after World War II, the family moved from Constantinople to Italy. Vitti initially taught at the University of Palermo and at the University of Naples L'Orientale, as well as visiting professor in Paris, Geneva and Thessaloniki, most recently at the Tuscan University in Viterbo. He lives in Rome and is President of the Associazione Nazionale di Studi Neogreci.
Vitti is one of the leading Italian experts on the whole field of modern Greek literature. Among other things, he discovered the manuscript of the Ευγένα Evjena (Venice 1646), a religious drama by an unknown Theodoros Montzeleze (also: Montseleze; Greek Θεόδωρος Μοντσελέζε) from the island of Zakynthos, which expanded the knowledge of theater productions in vernacular Greek. In particular, he dealt with Andreas Kalvos, Ugo Foscolo's collaborator, fundamentally examined the generation of the 1930s and analyzed the poetic work of Odysseys Elytis and translated it into Italian. The Italian literary critic and historian Mario Petrucciani became the subject of one of his studies.
Vitti was a member of numerous literary circles and knew personally many of the great poets, including Elytis and Seferis. The Princeton University Library holds letters from Greek, Turkish, Italian and other poets and authors to Vitti from 1947 to 1992, as well as manuscripts by Greek authors collected by Vitti.