12 Facts About Domenico Comparetti

Domenico Comparetti was born in Rome and died in Florence.

Domenico Comparetti studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza, took his degree in 1855 in natural science and mathematics, and entered his uncle's pharmacy as an assistant.

Domenico Comparetti learned Greek by himself, and gained facility in the modern language by conversing with the Greek students at the university.

Domenico Comparetti subsequently took up his residence in Rome as lecturer on Greek antiquities and greatly interested himself in the Roman Forum excavations.

Domenico Comparetti was a member of the governing bodies of the academies of Milan, Venice, Naples and Turin.

Laura married Luigi Adriano Milani, and Domenico Comparetti, wishing that their last name should be transmitted to her daughter's male descendants, got the royal concession to the addition of his name to those of the Milani grandchildren.

Domenico Comparetti edited the great inscription which contains a collection of the municipal laws of Gortyn in Crete, discovered on the site of the ancient city.

Domenico Comparetti comes to a negative conclusion, and applies this reasoning to the Homeric problem.

Domenico Comparetti's Researches concerning the Book of Sindibad were translated in the Proceedings of the Folk-Lore Society.

Together with Alessandro d'Ancona, Comparetti edited a collection of Italian national songs and stories, many of which had been collected and written down by himself for the first time.

Several years later, Domenico Comparetti asserted that these lamellae were Orphic, interpreting lines upon these and other such tablets as attestation of "the main principles or the Orphic doctrine on psychogony and metempsychosis".

Domenico Comparetti's ideas were adopted by a number of other scholars in his time, and have had a mark upon subsequent scholarship.