Luigi Ferrari (1916–1990), originally from Rome, was a teacher of Latin (first at the Reale Liceo “Rossi” in Tuscan Massa, then at the Reale Liceo-Ginnasio “Ximenes” in Sicilian Trapani, 1939–1965). He graduated in Lettere from the University of Pisa in 1938, with a thesis on the scholia on Horace (Lo Schiavo 2003: 320–321). During the ventennio fascista, Ferrari participated in the fifth national competition of Latin prose, organized by the Istituto di Studi Romani (Ferrari 1939). In the 1960s and 1970s, he was headmaster of the Ginnasio “Mandralisca” in Cefalù and the Liceo “Giovanni XXIII” in Marsala on Sicily. During this period, he published mainly on Greek literature, including Aeschylus, Stesichorus, and Quintus of Smyrna (Lo Schiavo 2003: 321).

Bibliography

Latin texts

Ferrari, Luigi. 1939. De Sacro Italiae itinere per saecula. Trapani: Casa Editrice Radio.

Secondary sources

Lo Schiavo, Renato. 2003. La teoria dell’origine siciliana dell’Odissea: il cieco, la giovinetta ed il malconsiglio. Sicilia nuova e antica 23. Palermo: Istituto siciliano di studi politici ed economici.

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