Not much is currently known about Pietro Cannata. He appears to have been a priest and a teacher, active in Palermo. He authored a Latin essay on the language of St Ambrose (Cannata 1911) and translated Ambrose’s speech on his brother’s death into Italian (Cannata 1944). In 1938, he participated in the Latin prose competitions initiated by the Istituto di Studi Romani (Cannata 1938), together with Giovanni Corti and Francesco Lo Parco (Sacré 2020: 18n17).

Bibliography

Latin texts

Cannata, Pietro. 1911. De Syntaxi ambrosiana in libris qui inscribuntur de officis ministrorum. Modica: Cannata.

———. 1938. De pace Europae in conventu Monacensi per Mussolinium servata Doctor Petrus Cannata breviter disseruit. Palermo: Ex Typis Salv. Lucchese.

———, trans. 1944. L’orazione di S. Ambrogio: in morte del fratello Satiro. Modica: Cannata.

Secondary sources

Sacré, Dirk. 2020. ‘Die neulateinische Literatur in Mussolinis Italien’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 13–50. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

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