Anna Marinetti
Anna Marinetti (born 1955, Venice) is an Italian linguist whose research focuses on the historical linguistics of pre-Roman Italy. She is best known for her decipherment of the South Picene script in 1985 and her contributions to scholarship on the Italic languages.
Career
[edit]Marinetti graduated in 1978 with a degree in Lettere (Letters) from the University of Padua, where she studied with Aldo Prosdocimi.[1] [2] From 1985 to 1987, she taught at the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan.[3] In 1987, she was appointed to a position as a full professor at the University of Bari, and then in 1990 as a full professor of linguistics at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice.[4][5]
From 1991 to 1996, she was Director of the Department of Classical Studies and Tradition (Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione classica), and from 1997 to 2003 and 2006 to 2009, she was Director of the Department of Ancient and Oriental Studies (Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità e del Vicino Oriente).[6]
She is the editor of the Rivista di Epigrafia Italica and the Studi Etruschi published by the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici.[7] She also works with the Reitia Research Unit at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne.[8]
In Marinetti's 1985 book on the South Picene texts of pre-Roman, she introduced a new transcription of the characters which is now widely used in scholarship.[9] She showed that in South Picene script, the character ⟨.⟩ is a reduced ⟨o⟩ and the character ⟨:⟩ is a reduced ⟨8⟩, used for /f/.[10][11] The script was considered partially undeciphered prior to Marinetti's breakthrough.[12] Her contribution allowed the language to be studied in full, revealing 'texts of considerable linguistic and cultural interest', including several poetic texts.[13]
Publications
[edit]- Sudpiceno. Elmo da Canosa di Puglia (BA). Stele di Belmonte Piceno (AP). Saggio di revisione, in: Studi Etruschi XLVI (1978) 405–409.
- Il sudpiceno come italico (e sabino?). Note preliminari, in: Studi Etruschi XLIX (1981) 113–158.
- Lingue e dialetti dell’Italia antica. Indici, Istituto di Glottologia e Fonetica dell’Università di Padova, Padua 1982, S. 89–298.
- Le iscrizioni sudpicene, Bd. I: Testi, Olschki, Florenz 1985.
- with Marcello Meli: Ferdinand de Saussure. Le leggende germaniche. Scritti scelti ed annotati, Zielo, Este 1986.
- Le tavolette alfabetiche di Este, in: Maristella Pandolfini Angeletti, Aldo Prosdocimi (Hrsg.): Alfabetari e insegnamento della scrittura in Etruria e nell’Italia antica, Olschki, Florence 1990, S. 95–142.
- Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall’area veronese, in: Studi Etruschi LXX (2004) 408–420.
- Le iscrizioni venetiche dal santuario in località Fornace di Altino (VE), in: Studi Etruschi LXXIII 2007 [2009] 421–450.
- Schrift und Sprache im antiken Italien, in: Rupert Gebhard (Hrsg.): Im Licht des Südens. Begegnungen der antiken Kulturen zwischen Mittelmeer und Zentraleuropa, Josef Fink, München 2011, S. 178–183.
- Le iscrizioni del santuario di Reitia a Este (scavi 1880–1916 e 1987–1991) = Die Inschriften aus dem Reitia-Heiligtum von Este (Ausgrabungen 1880–1916 und 1987–1991) (= Il santuario di Reitia a Este. Band 10; = Studien zu vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Heiligtümern. Band 11). Nünnerich-Asmus, Oppenheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-96176-264-4.
External links
[edit]- Anna Marinetti, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
- "Anna Marinetti, CV, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
References
[edit]- ^ Anna Marinetti, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice.
- ^ Baldi 1986, [1]
- ^ Anna Marinetti, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice.
- ^ Anna Marinetti, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice.
- ^ Marinetti Anna, Istituto Veneto.
- ^ Marinetti Anna, Istituto Veneto.
- ^ Studi Etruschi, Giorgio Bretschneider Editore.
- ^ Staff of the Reitia Research Unit, University of Cologne.
- ^ Zamponi 2021, p. 7-10
- ^ Stuart-Smith 2004, p. 66
- ^ Marinetti 1985
- ^ "South Picene Language", Oxford Classical Dictionary
- ^ "South Picene Language", Oxford Classical Dictionary