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This essay examines some of the most important aspects and moments that characterised the complex figure of Carlo Dionisotti. Though he graduated from the University of Turin under the supervision of Vittorio Cian, Dionisotti considered his real mentors to be his French literature professor F. Neri and the philologist S. Debenedetti (Dionisotti was never his student but nonetheless was closely associated with him). Dionisotti’s departure from Italy after World War II instilled in him a satirical attitude toward his native country, one that occupies a prominent position in his intellectual work. It also led him to show particular enthusiasm and fondness for 18th and 19th-century Italian writers and scholars who were expatriates like himself. Moreover, the essay focuses on how this literary scholar gradually came to be recognised as an authority in his field (with great merits and obvious limitations), as well as his distrust in historical periodisation.
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