Very little is known of Gaetano Balboni. He worked in close collaboration with Ermanno Neri, and together they wrote educational material in addition to an edition and commentary of Lucretius’ De rerum natura (Sacré 2020: 30). The same duo also produced a translation of the works of St. Basil the Great (Balboni & Neri 1938). Furthermore, Balboni wrote a book with parallel exercises for Greek and Latin (Balboni 1940). More research on Balboni’s life and work is needed.

Bibliography

Scholarly works (selection)

Balboni, G., and E. Neri. 1937. Conversazioni latine: per tutte le scuole medie. Siena: Libreria Editrice Ticci.

Balboni, Gaetano. 1940. Exercitationes parallelae graecae et latinae linguae. Florence: In Aedibus F. Le Monnier.

Basilius Caesariensis. 1938. Le omelie: Ai giovani, Contro l’ira, Dio non è autore dei mali, L’umiltà, Sopra l’invidia, I quaranta martiri. Translated by Gaetano Balboni and Fortunato Neri. Siena: Ezio Cantagalli.

Lucretius Carus, Titus. 1935. Della natura. Libro 1. Translated by Gaetano Balboni and Ermanno Neri. Bologna-Rocca S. Casciano: L. Cappelli.

Secondary literature

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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