Ferdinando Ranalli

Ferdinando Ranalli (2 February 1813 – 10 June 1894) was an Italian scholar, historian, literary critic, librarian, politician and purist.

Biography

Ferdinando Ranalli was born at Nereto in Teramo. Professor at the University of Pisa, first of Italian literature and then of history, he was librarian at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. Ranalli participated actively in the unification movements. He was deputy for the historical right in the X Legislature of the Kingdom of Italy (1867–70).

An ardent purist, he published numerous works on literary theory, history, and contemporary politics, yet used a language modeled on that of the sixteenth centuryists.

Works

• Ammaestramenti di Letteratura: Libri Quattro (1840)
• Della Pittura Religiosa: Dialogo di Ferdinando Ranalli da Servire di Confutazione al Misticismo e Idealismo Odierno (1844)
• Storia degli Avvenimenti d'Italia dopo l'Esaltazione di Pio IX al Pontificato: Con 12 Incisioni in Rame (1848–1849; 2 volumes)
• Le Storie Italiane dal 1846 al 1853 (1855; 3 volumes)
• Storia delle Belle Arti in Italia (1856)
• Del Riordinamento d'Italia, Considerazioni di Ferdinando Ranalli (1859)
• La Letteratura Nazionale: Prolusione e Prime lezioni Orali (1861)
• Lezioni di storia (1867–1868)
• L'Italia dopo il 1859: Continuazione delle Storie Italiane (1875)

References

• Moretti, Mauro (2016). "Ranalli, Ferdinando". In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. LXXXVI.

External links

• Works by Ferdinando Ranalli at Open Library