Luigi Taberini (d. 1933), originally from Naples (van Binnebeke 2020: 282, n. 175), was a teacher at the Royal High School of Ancona (Regio Ginnasio di Ancona). He was part of the circle of Latin poets around the illustrious Latinist Alessandro Zappata (1860–1929), a teacher at the same school (Garavani 1934: 185). In 1927, Taberini’s Herculanum resurgens (Taberini 1930) was well-received at the Certamen Locrense. This seems to be the only official recognition his poetry ever received, although he participated four times in the Certamen Hoeufftianum between 1928 and 1931 (see van Binnebeke 2020: 282ff.). Despite his prolific activity, most of his Latin works were published in limited local editions, and therefore remained largely unknown (Garavani 1933: 185).

Bibliography

Latin texts

Taberini, Luigi. 1923. Fascis lictorius. Alcaei naufragium. Carmi alcaici con traduzione italiana e note. Arcona: Tipografia Dorica.

———. 1929a. Dux: alcaica latina con traduzione italiana dell’autore. Ancona: Officine Poligrafiche della Federazione Fascista.

———. 1929b. ‘Herculanum resurgens’. Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, 64. 832, nr. 41).

———. 1930a. Herculanum resurgens in certamine locrensi anni 1927 laude ornatum, con traduzione italiana. Arcona: Tipografia Dorica P. Rabini.

———. 1930b. ‘Septimii Severi somnium’. Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, 64. 833, nr. 12.

———. 1933. Septimii Severi somnium. Carme latino con traduzione italiana dell’autore. Ancona: Tipografia Dorica.

Secondary sources

Binnebeke, Xavier van. 2020. ‘Hoeufft’s Legacy: Neo-Latin Poetry in the Archive of the Certamen Poeticum Hoeufftianum (1923–1943)’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 245–325. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Fedeli, Paolo. 2020. ‘Uso e abuso della poesia di Orazio nelle odi al duce e al fascismo’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy in Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 51–76. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Garavani, Giunio. 1935. ‘Commemorazione del Prof. Luigi Taberini’. In Atti del III Congresso Nazionale di Studi Romani, edited by Carlo Galassi Paluzzi. Vol. 4. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli - Editore.

Sacré, Dirk. 2020. ‘The Certamen Hoeufftianum during the Ventennio Fascista: An Exploration (with Unplublished Poems by Vittorio Genovesi and Giuseppe Favaro)’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 199–241. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Scriba, Friedemann. 2003. ‘Mussolini-Panegyrik im alkäischen Vers’. Altsprachlicher Unterricht 46 (1): 38–42.

Nicolò Bettegazzi