Chiara Frugoni
Frugoni in 2011
Born(1940-02-04)4 February 1940
Died9 April 2022(2022-04-09) (aged 82)
Pisa, Italy
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
OccupationHistorian
Employer(s)University of Pisa
University of Rome Tor Vergata
AwardsViareggio Prize (1994)

Chiara Frugoni (4 February 1940 – 9 April 2022) was an Italian historian and academic, specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay, Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate.

Biography

Chiara Frugoni was born in Pisa on 4 February 1940. Her father was the medievalist, Arsenio Frugoni.[1] She spent time during childhood and youth in a sanatorium due to suffering from tuberculosis.

Frugoni graduated from Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1964 with a thesis entitled Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana (the Three Living and the Three Dead in Italian medieval tradition), published two years later in the "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei".[2] In it, she searched for a working method that took equal account of both texts and images, a method she always considered important,[3] in line with her conviction that "the image speaks".[4]

She married Salvatore Settis in 1965, with whom she had three children.

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References

  1. ^ "Antorio Gnoli, 'Chiara Frugoni: studio San Francesco ed ho portato il cilicio, ma le suore sono state la mia scuola dilaicismo', La Repubblica, 19 January 2014" (in Italian). 19 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei", anno CCCLXIV - 1967, pag. 145-251.
  3. ^ "Curriculum di Chiara Frugoni" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "viediscampo.com".
  5. ^ Pampaloni, Lorenza (25 June 1994). "Ad Antonio Tabucchi il Premio Viareggio per la narrativa". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Premio letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  7. ^ Recensione di Medioevo sul naso in mondimedievali.net.
  8. ^ Recensione di Una solitudine abitata in mondimedievali.net.