Not much is currently known of B. Jsa Noël, better known as Giuseppe Basilone. He worked as a teacher and wrote educational material for high schools both before and after the ventennio fascista. In addition to textbooks with Latin conversations, he specialised in writing reading-guides for classical works in both Greek and Latin texts, such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, and for Italian classics, such as Dante’s Divina commedia and Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. Much research on Noël’s life and works remains to be done.

Bibliography

Latin texts

Basilone, Giuseppe. 1936. Alterni sermones: conversazioni italiano-latine. Naples: P. Federico & G. Ardia.

Other works (selection)

Basilone, Giuseppe. 1931. Guida allo studio dell’Eneide: per gli alunni delle scuole medie. Naples: P. Federico e G. Ardia.

———. 1932a. Guida allo studio dell’Iliade e dell’Odissea per gli alunni delle scuole medie. Naples: P. Federico e G. Ardia.

———. 1932b. Guida allo studio dell’Orlando furioso: per gli alunni delle scuole medie. Naples: P. Federico & G. Ardia.

———. 1933. Guida allo studio della Divina Commedia. Naples: P. Federico & G. Ardia.

Secondary literature

“Renaissance Books.” 1961. Renaissance News 14 (4): 316–36.

Sacré, Dirk. 2020. “De colloquiis quibusdam scholasticis intra vicennium fascale conscriptis.” Conventiculum anni 2019 Latinum.

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