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on 28 May 2004 at the age of 91. In Padua he was dedicated to the circulating library, and the adjoining hall-studio of via Portello. He left his library as a special fund at the Library of the Normal Superiore School.
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around 1370. In 1998, he discovered a manuscript made under Boccaccio's personal supervision, also of the Decameron, conceived in the mid-fifties of the 1300s and formally drawn up in 1360.
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in April of that year. In August, Branca participated in the dramatic events of the Florence uprising, which led to the liberation of the city.
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Branca's contributions to research on Boccaccio were fundamental. In 1962 he identified Hamilton 90 as a precious autograph of
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Poetics of renewal and hagiographic tradition in Vita Nuova, in "Miscellanea Italo Siciliano" (Florence, 1966)
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Branca's studies have also influenced the philological field. He established the definitions of
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Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, of which he was president from 1979 to 1985
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European humanism and Venetian humanism, own essays and essays collected by Vittore Branca
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at the national edition of Boccaccio's works. He began to teach in high schools.
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After graduating from the classical high school Gabriello Chiabrera in
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In July 1943 he took part in the work that led to the drafting of the
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until his death in 2004, and one of the most acclaimed contemporary
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magazine. Branca, in spite of his profound connection with the
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History of the Collections of Rhyme and Classical Collections
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A man with strong religious roots, he participated in the
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Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
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Knight of the Order of the Order of the Italian Republic
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Notes on Religious Literature of the Threeteenth Century
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Alfieri and the pursuit of style with five new essays
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Concept, History, Myths and Images of the Middle Ages
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Fulvio Texts in the Court of Urban VIII and Felipe IV
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and in the faculty of Magisterium "Maria Assunta" in
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The Unfinished Second Centurion by Angelo Poliziano
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philologist
literary critic
professor emeritus
Italian literature
University of Padua
scholars
Giovanni Boccaccio
partisan struggle
Second World War
Lake Maggiore
Savona
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
FUCI
Catholic Action
Giovanni Gentile
Florence
Accademia della Crusca
Code of Camaldoli
Mussolini
resistance
Alcide De Gasperi
Tuscan CNL
philosopher
Nazism
partisans
De Gasperi
Christian Democracy
University of Florence
Rome

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