CIMMINO, Francesco

CIMMINO, Francesco. Naples 6.1.1862 — Naples 2.3.1939. Italian Indologist and Poet. Studies at Naples under Kerbaker, graduated in 1886, then at Turin under Flechia. Teacher at Liceo Genovesi and from 1898 libera docenza di letteratura sanscrita at R. Università di Napoli. In 1914 succeeded Kerbaker as Professor (incaricato) of Sanskrit there, retired 1935. Married 1903 Olimpia Gibellini, two daughters and one son, Gianfranco C. (1908–1989), a mathematician. For his birth also 1864 and for death 1936 are given.

Cimmino was specially interested in ancient Indian theatre. Also a scholar of Modern Persian. “Poeta sentimentale”, some of whose poems were composed as lieds (esp. by Tosti).

Publications: Translated: Vicramorvasi. 79 p. Turin 1890; “Ratnāvalī” o la Collana do perle. 199 p. Naples 1894; “Malavica e Agnimitra”. 126 p. Naples 1897; Dal poema persiano Jusuf e Zuleicha di M. A. Giâmi. Naples 1899 (partial transl. in ottave); “Nāgānanda” o Il Giubilo dei Serpenti. 63+167 p. Palermo 1903; “Mádhava e Málati”, dramma indiano di Bhavabhúti. 44+250 p. Milano – Rome – Naples 1915; Kṣemīçvara, Caṇḍakauçika: la collera di Kausika, dramma indiano in cinque atti. 239 p. I Classici dell’Oriente 2. Città di Castello 1923.

– “Il tipo comico del “vidūshaka” nell’antico dramma indiano”, Atti Accad. Napoli 15, 1893, 97-142; “Sul dramma Nāgānanda, o il Giubilo dei Serpenti”, Atti Accad. Napoli 22, 1902, 155-182; “Il terzo atto del dramma indiano Priyadarçikā”, Atti Accad. Pont. 32, 1902, 2:7, 1-18; “Alcune osservazioni sul dramma Mālavikāgni­mitra”, Atti Accad. Pont. 34, 1904, 2:9, 1-12; “Studi sul teatro indiano. 1. Sul dramma Karpūramańǵarī. 2. Sul drama Ćaṇḍakauçika.”, Rendic. Accad. Napoli N.S. 19, 1905, 1-76; “Sui drammi attribuiti ad Harshadeva”, Atti Accad. Pont. 36, 1906, 2:11, 1-15; “L’uso delle didascalie nel dramma indiano”, Memorie Accad. Napoli 1911, 133-205; “Osservazioni sul rasa del Mālatīmādhava di Bhavabhūti”, Atti Accad. Napoli 4, 1915, 143-210; “Il “rasa” e le sue distinzioni nel dramma indiano”, Memorie Accad. Napoli 4, 1919, 43-94.

Some further brief articles on Indian drama mostly in the publications of Naples Academy; own poetry.

Sources: Gli studi orientali in Italia 1861–1911, and Gabrieli, Bibliografia 1912–1934. G. Boccali, “Il teatro indiano e la teoria del rasa nell’opera di F.C.”, Napoli e l’India 1990, 5-23; *P. Cimmino Gibellini, FC: Un poeta Napoletano tra ’800 e ’900. 2004; C. Di Girolamo in www.filmod.unina.it/antenati/Cimmino.htm (of Naples university) with photo; *Formichi, Atti Accad. Pontan. 2, 21, 1916, 1-13; photo also in La conoscenza dell’ Asia 2, 1985, pl. 2..

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