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Cesare Segre

Who

Cesare Segre · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Italian philologist and semiotician of literature and language.

When

1928, Verzuolo, Italy — 2014, Milan, Italy

Where

Italy

Biography

Cesare Segre is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Italian philologist and semiotician of literature and language.

How & why

Cesare Segre was a leading Italian philologist and literary semiotician who brought structuralist and semiotic methods to the study of medieval and modern texts, editing landmark critical editions and shaping the theory of narrative. He held the chair of Romance philology at Pavia. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

Contributions & Sources

Italian philologist and semiotician of literature and language.

1928

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics