In memoriam: Luigi Monga (1941-2004).(Biography)

Publication: Italica

Publication Date: 22-SEP-04

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The scholarly community was shocked and saddened by the news that Luigi Monga, professor of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University, died July 10, after suffering a stroke July 7 (Chronicle of Higher Education [July 18, 2004]). He is survived by his wife Mary, and his daughter Francesca.

Born in Desio (MI), Italy on June 19, 1941, Luigi Monga came to the United States in the 1960s, having taught in England and Chad, and already with a strong background in the classical languages. He earned MA and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. There he explored various areas of the Romance Languages and Literatures, in particular in a Renaissance context, before taking up a position in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt, where he taught for 28 years.

Distinguished by the territorial breadth of his research, and the humanistic paradigm and spirit that informed it, Luigi Monga was truly a Renaissance man, and among the most productive and innovative literary scholars of his generation. The most compelling characteristic of Luigi's scholarship was...

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