MAGGI, Pietro Giuseppe

MAGGI, Pietro Giuseppe. Milano 31.8.1817 — Milano 5.2.1873. Italian Scholar interested in Indology. Son of Giovanni Antonio Maggi. Ph.D. Member of Lombardian Academy. According to De Gubernatis “ingegno di vasta e minuta erudizione”, but published little. Married, children, his granddaughter was —> Pizzagalli’s mother.

It has been claimed that in the notes to his translation in 1847 Maggi was the first to note Sassetti’s linguistics observations, but from Gianluca Rognoni I learn that he was only the first to publish this information. Before him it was noted by the poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), but his Zibaldone was only published posthumously in 1898.

Publications: Translated: Due episodi di poemi indiani. 20+157 p. Milano 1847 (with extensive notes), 2nd ed. Le Glorie di Rama e le nozze di Nala e di Damascanti ossia Due episodi della guerra dell’indipendenza dell’India. Milano 1858 (Yajñadatta­vadha & Nala 1-5, 160 p.); “Nala. Poemetto indiano estratto dal terzo libro del Mahâbhârata. Versione con note”, Rivista Orientale 1, 1867, 68-73, 148-162, 292-300, 373-387, 578-604, 763-790, 989-1017.

– “Sull’ ordinamento sociale dei paesi asiatici e specialmente dell’ India”, Atti dell’ Istituto Lombardo 1, 1849/50, 273 p.

– “Di un verso della Divina Commedia di Dante e della notizia che ai suoi tempi si aveva delle lingue orientali”, Giornale dell’ Istituto Lombardo 6, 1854, 11 p.

– Also publ. lesser articles on many subjects and translations from English, German and Hungarian.

Sources: *G.I. Ascoli, Rendic. del R. Ist. Lombardo 2:6:14, 1873, 491-498; De Gubernatis, Cenni 46 & 265 and Matériaux 356f.; *A.M. Pizzagalli, Aspetti e problemi della civiltà indiana. Milano (1927), 195-198; *M. Taddei, “Dal Rāmāyaṇa alla rivolta india del 1857: di Pietro Giuseppe Maggi, pioniere dei nostri studi indologici, e delle sue disavventure bibliografiche”, AION 56, 1996, 320ff.; Gli studi orientali in Italia 1861–1911. My best thanks to G. Rognoni for the information sent in e-mail 1.8.2025.

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