RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano. 1893 — 1945. Monsignor. Italian Indologist. Born in a Sicilian noble family. Student of O. Nazari at Palermo. With his early interest in India he planned a missionary career. Instead, from 1933 he taught Sanskrit at the “Pontificium Institutum Missionale Athenaei Urbani de Propaganda Fide” in…
PEROGLIO, Celestino. Palestro 1824 — Bologna 1909. Italian Historian, interested in Indian Literature. Taught history and geography at technical school in Vercelli (founded by himself in 1854) and finally at University of Bologna. A Garibaldian nationalist and a freemason (grand master of Grande Oriente d’Italia). Publications: Del principio della nazionalità…
PERINI, Osvaldo. Verona (?) 1826 — 1890. Italian Journalist, Author, Historian and Translator interested in Sanskrit Literature. In 1849 expelled as a nationalist from Verona by Austrian government, worked as teacher in Breno near Brescia, and, after a while in Lugano, in other Lombardian towns, in 1853-62 in Turin and…
MORICI, Giuseppe. 13.9.1855 — 19??. Italian interested in Sanskrit. “R. Provveditore agli Studi a Macerata”. Publications: “Kālidāsa. Ritusanhāra. Traduzione in versi con note”, Orlando furioso. Rivista di lettere, scienze ed arti 2, Livorno 1886, 81-84, 92-96, 98-101; Kālidāsa. La nube messaggera. Poema tradotto. 79 p. Roma 1891 (and SFII 1-3,…
MAROZZI, Eli Raphael. Motegallo 1913 — Honolulu 31.8.1999. U.S. (Italian-born) Artist (sculptor and ceramist) and Practiser of Vedānta. Came to the U.S.A. as child, grew up in Pennsylvania. In 1941-43 in army. Studies at University Washington (B.A. 1949) and of Hawaii (M.A. 1952), 1950 also in India (Indian art and…
NOBILE, Riccardo. 1886 — 1930. Italian Interested in Sanskrit. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. Ph.D. Publications: “Notizie sulle sotto-caste nell’India, estratte, pubblicate e tradotte dai codici inediti del Jātiviveka”, Atti Della Reale Accademia di Archeologica, Lettere et Belle Arti, Napoli N.S. 1, 1910, 65-94. – Translated from Sanskrit: Calidasa: Sacuntala.…
MORRO, Felice. 18?? — 1???. Italian. interested in Sanskrit, fl. in the 1870s. Publications: Vālmīki. Tre capitoli dell’ Araṇyakāṇḍa o e 3° libro del Rāmāyaṇa, tradotti. 30 p. Schenone (Genoa) 1874. Sources: Title only in Gli studi orientali in Italia 1861–1911; nothing in Internet.
MAROUZEAU, Jules Emile. Fleurat (Creuse) 20.3.1878 — Iteuil (Vienne) 27.9.1964. French Linguist and Latin Scholar. Son of a farmer, educated in Guéret and at Lycée Lakanal. In 1901-07 studies at Sorbonne (agrégé 1904), i.al. under Meillet. Docteur-ès-lettres 1910 (both dissertations on Latin). In WW I in army and as prisoner…
FAIANI, Antonio. 17.8.1859 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indology. Director of R. Liceo-Ginnasio Massimo d’Azeglio in Turin. Perhaps lived into an advanced age. But sources are contradictory. One Antonio Faiani of Verona has life years 1859–1933. However, Pullé in OC 10, 1894, 2:10 ascribes the Meghadūta to the Director…
STOHR, Paolo. 1907? — 1940? (when 33). Italian Indologist (Sanskrit Scholar). Publications: Wrote some articles for the Rivista di Indologia, apparently never published. Sources: Short notice by E.G. Carpani, in IC 6:3, 1940, 367; not in Porru 1940.