Bruno Gentili

Bruno Gentili OMRI (20 November 1915 – 7 January 2014) was an Italian classical scholar and philologist, Emeritus at the University of Urbino.

[1] He enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome, where he studied Greek Literature under Ettore Romagnoli and Byzantine Philology under Silvio Giuseppe Mercati.

In 1956 Gentili became professor of Greek literature in the newly founded Faculty of Humanities of the University of Urbino, explicitly nominated by the chancellor Carlo Bo.

In 1950 he published his first monograph on the topic, which became one of his lines of research;[6] his 1952 book on the subject, La metrica dei Greci, was re-edited and augmented in 2003 in collaboration with Liana Lomiento.

[13] His major critical work is the Teubner collection, edited with Carlo Prato, of all the extant fragments of the Greek elegiac poets.