Sebastiano Timpanaro



Sebastiano Timpanaro (September 5, 1923 in Parma – November 26, 2000 in Florence) was an Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic. He was also a long-time Marxist who made important contributions to left-wing political causes. He was an atheist.

English translations

 * On materialism (Lawrence Garner, tr., 1975)
 * The Freudian slip: psychoanalysis and textual criticism (Kate Soper, tr., 1976)
 * The genesis of Lachmann's method (Glenn W. Most, ed. and tr., 2005)
 * "The Pessimistic Materialism of Giacomo Leopardi". New Left Review; I/116, July–August 1979: 29–50.
 * "Considerations of Materialism". New Left Review; I/85 May/June 1974: 3-22.