Tra Roma e Pisa: la formazione di Ettore Romagnoli

This contribution reconstructs the intellectual and academic formation of Ettore Romagnoli (1871-1938) between Rome and Pisa, highlighting the decisive role played by the cultural and university environments he frequented during the 1880s and 1890s. Through an analysis of Romagnoli’s memoirs, school and university archival documentation, and newly identified external evidence, the article explores the relationship between Romagnoli’s self-narrative and the objective data of his student career. Particular attention is devoted to his years at the Liceo Classico Umberto I in Rome, to his brief but significant experience in Pisa at the University and the Scuola Normale Superiore, and to his subsequent return to Rome, where he completed his studies with a degree in Greek literature. The essay also reconstructs the network of teachers and fellow students who contributed to his intellectual formation, highlighting his engagement with German-style philology and the early emergence of a critical tension toward its more rigorous methodological assumptions. Within this framework, the experience between Rome and Pisa emerges as a crucial moment in the development of the intellectual stance that would characterize Romagnoli’s entire scholarly and polemical activity.