Mario E. Cosenza was an educator and classical scholar of the Italian Humanists. He was the first principal of Townsend Harris Hall Prep School and Dean of Faculty at Brooklyn College in New York.[1]
Mario E. Cosenza | |
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| Born | November 21, 1880 |
| Died | October 22, 1966 (aged 85) |
Biography
editMario Emilio Benvenuto Angelo Cosenza was born in Naples, Italy on November 21, 1880 to Giuseppe Francesco Cosenza, a painter, and Emilia Cosenza, an opera singer. He and his three siblings emigrated to the United States in 1896, joining his parents, who had come to the United States four years earlier.
Cosenza studied at Columbia University, with a dissertation entitled "Official positions after the time of Constantine" published in 1905.
Bibliography
edit- Ettore Pais, Ancient Legends of Roman History, tr. Mario Cosenza, 1905[2]
- Mario Cosenza, Official Positions After the Time of Constantine, Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, 1905
- Mario Cosenza, Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors, University of Chicago Press, 1910
- Mario Cosenza, Francesco Petrarca and the Revolution of Cola Di Rienzo, University of Chicago Press, 1913
- Mario Cosenza, The Study of Italian in the United States, Italy America society, 1924
- Mario Cosenza, The Establishment of the College of the City of New York as the Free Academy in 1847, Associate Alumni of the College of the City of New York, 1925
- Mario Cosenza, Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Humanists and of the World of Classical Scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800, G.K.Hall & Co., 1964
- Mario Cosenza, Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Printers and of Foreign Printers in Italy, G. K. Hall & Co., 1966
- Mario Cosenza, Checklist of Non-Italian Humanists, 1300 - 1800, G. K. Hall & Co., 1969
References
edit- ^ "MARIO E. COSENZA, EDUCATOR, WAS 85; Ex-Dean at Brooklyn Dies Classicist Wrote on Japan". New York Times. October 25, 1966.
- ^ Sanders, Henry (1907). "Reviewed work: Ancient Legends of Roman HIstory". The Classical Journal. 2 (4). JSTOR 3287633.
External links
edit- Mario E. Cosenza Papers, MS# 0298, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- Letter from Mario E. Cosenza to Alice E. Kober, November 17, 1946
- Memorandum Regarding Flag Pole, CUNY Academic Works, Brooklyn College History, December 3, 1937