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| Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione | |
|---|---|
| Name | Aldo Scaglione and Jeanne Scaglione |
| Birth date | Aldo: 1931; Jeanne: 1930s |
| Birth place | Aldo: Italy; Jeanne: United States |
| Occupation | Scholars, editors, professors |
| Notable works | Aldo: The Italian Novel, The Theory of the Novel; Jeanne: editorial collaborations |
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione are a scholarly couple whose joint and individual careers intersected Romance philology, comparative literature, philology, and academic publishing. Their work engaged institutions such as Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and presses including Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Johns Hopkins University Press. They collaborated with professional organizations like the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Medieval Academy of America while influencing studies across Italian literature, French literature, Spanish literature, and Portuguese literature.
Aldo Scaglione was born in Italy and pursued studies in philology and comparative literature at institutions including the University of Rome, the Sorbonne, and later Harvard University, where he worked with scholars associated with Ernest Robert Curtius, Roman Jakobson, and Giorgio Pasquali. Jeanne Scaglione, born in the United States, trained in Romance languages and literature at universities such as Barnard College, Columbia University, and engaged with faculty from Leo Spitzer, Edward Said, and Paul Oskar Kristeller. Both encountered major postwar intellectual movements tied to structuralism, New Criticism, and philological renewal centered in Paris and Cambridge.
Aldo held professorial appointments at Brown University and later at University of Chicago and Cornell University before joining faculties like University of California, Berkeley; he also served in visiting roles at Oxford University, École normale supérieure, and Princeton University. Jeanne taught and worked in editorial capacities at institutions including Columbia University, Smith College, and contributed to catalogs at Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and projects connected to Loeb Classical Library. Their careers intersected with administrative and curricular developments promoted by bodies such as the American Council on Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Aldo authored and edited influential monographs and anthologies, notably titles published by Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Johns Hopkins University Press, including works on the Italian novel, medieval poetics, and Romanticism that engaged with scholarship by Italo Calvino, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Giacomo Leopardi. Jeanne collaborated on critical editions, translations, and editorial projects linked to series such as the Cambridge History of Italian Literature and journals like PMLA, Comparative Literature, and MLN. Together they edited volumes drawing contributions from scholars associated with Northrop Frye, Mikhail Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.
Their scholarship advanced methods in Romance philology by integrating textual criticism modeled on Ludwig Traube, Ernst Robert Curtius, and Paul Zumthor with comparative frameworks influenced by Ernest Renan, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aldo’s work on metrics, narrative theory, and canon formation dialogued with studies of Dante Alighieri, Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Miguel de Cervantes, and Luís de Camões, while Jeanne’s editorial expertise supported critical editions of texts by Ariosto, Tasso, and Molière. Their comparative approach connected Italian Renaissance, French Classicism, and Spanish Golden Age traditions and influenced curricula at centers like Princeton University, Yale University, and University of Chicago.
They received recognition from organizations such as the Modern Language Association, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and national academies including Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Grants and fellowships came from institutions like the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Aldo served on editorial boards for journals including Comparative Literature, MLN, and Speculum and participated in committees of the Modern Language Association and the Medieval Academy of America; Jeanne contributed to advisory boards for presses such as Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press.
Their partnership combined scholarly production, mentorship of graduate students at Harvard University, University of Chicago, and UC Berkeley, and stewardship of editorial projects that shaped canon debates touched by figures like Harold Bloom, Edward Said, and Geoffrey Hartman. The Scagliones’ legacy persists in university curricula, citation networks across journals like PMLA and Comparative Literature, and in archival holdings at libraries such as the Library of Congress, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and university special collections at Brown University and Columbia University. Category:Romance philologists