BARBI, MICHELE. - Philologist and man of letters, b. at Sambuca Pistoiese in 1867, d. at Florence in 1941. Formerly a librarian at Florence, in 1906 he became lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Messina, and then at Florence in the faculty of education.

A distinguished Dante scholar, he was director of the Bullettino della Società dantesca and of the Studi danteschi; critical editor of the Vita nuova and of the Canzoniere. He is the author of a compendious and precise monograph on Dante and of a two-volume collection of Problemi di critica dantesca. His high worth as a philologist is further documented by the writings: La Poesia popolare italiana, Studi e proposte, and La Nuova filologia e l'edizione dei nostri scrittori da Dante al Manzoni. With F. Ghisalberti he edited the national edition of Manzoni's Opere. By his will he left all his books to the Scuola normale superiore of Pisa «if possible to institute a school of Italian philology with practical exercises».

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BIBL.: Commemorazione di M. B., Florence 1943; it contains the Discorso commemorativo by Luigi Russo and the Bibliografia degli scritti compilata by Silvio Adrasso Barbi.

Silvio Pasquazi

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