Sebastiano Timpanaro

Sebastiano Timpanaro (September 5, 1923 in Parma – November 26, 2000 in Florence) was an Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic.

He was also a long-time Marxist who made important contributions to left-wing political causes.

[1] The son of Sebastiano Timpanaro senior and Maria Timpanaro Cardini, he studied in Florence with the celebrated classical philologist Giorgio Pasquali, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy, among others.

He chose to turn down a career in university teaching,[2] without, however, renouncing a truly impressive scholarly activity, directed toward Classics, Italian literature and some major philosophical themes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Marxism, Materialism and Freudian Psychoanalysis.

[3] He is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Misericordia dell'Antella, Municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, province of Florence.