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Fausto Cercignani ((Italian pronunciation: ˈfausto tʃertʃiɲˈɲani; born March 21, 1941) is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.
Fausto Cercignani has taught Germanic Philology and History of the English Language in various Italian Universities.[1] In the field of English studies he is well known for his investigations on William Shakespeare.[2] His major work on the subject is Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation, Oxford, University Press (Clarendon Press), 1981.[3]
His literary criticism deals with various famous authors: Jens Peter Jacobsen, Georg Trakl, Georg Büchner, Arthur Schnitzler, Wolfgang Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alban Berg, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Robert Musil, Novalis, Joseph Roth, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Karl Kraus, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, August Stramm, Gerhart Hauptmann, Reinhard Jirgl, Friedrich Schiller, Karl Krolow, Christa Wolf.
In the field of Linguistic Studies he has investigated the Germanic group of languages from a hostorical point of view, and especially Proto-Germanic, Gothic, English and German.
Fausto Cercignani is editor-in-chief of the international literary periodicals “Studia austriaca” (e-ISSN 2385-2925, p-ISSN 1593-2508) and of “Studia theodisca” (e-ISSN 2385-2917, p-ISSN 1593-2478).
Cercignani’s poetry is published in seven booklets and is now collected in the volume Scritture. Poesie edite e inedite, Torino 2015.[4] One critic speaks of orphic poetry, but «hard and shiny like steel»[5] and another remarks that Cercignani’s poetry «reconstructs physicality by means of abstraction».[6]
Fausto Cercignani has also experimented with the self-translation of his poems.[7]
Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse - Milano, 1996
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