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Dear Colleagues,
It is with great sadness that I inform you
of the passing of our
esteemed colleague, Professor Guido Pugliese, a pillar and one
of the founding
pioneers of Italian Studies at University of Toronto Mississauga
(UTM).
In 1968, Guido established the division of
Italian Studies at Brock
University. In 1975, he joined the then Erindale College where
he taught
Italian literature, film, theatre and language. Professor
Pugliese masterfully
combined traditional philology with innovative teaching
approaches. He has
lectured at numerous provincial, national
and international conferences on Dante, Boccaccio, Conti,
Goldoni, Leopardi,
Manzoni, Verga and on questions related to pedagogy, especially
on the use of
theatre as a vehicle for teaching and learning language. He has
published
articles on most of these authors, and has edited the previously
unpublished
correspondence of Pietro Ercole Gherardi to Muratori. From 1986
to 1999, together
with Professor Salvatore Bancheri and from 2000 onward by the
two professors
alternatively, he staged Italian theatre performed by UTM
students. Professor
Pugliese has been the President of the Dante Society of Toronto,
President of
the Canadian Society for Italian Studies (CSIS), and in 1995 was
recognized
with the Teaching Excellence Award for Faculty by UTM.
On October 1, 2015, on the occasion of his
75th birthday,
colleagues from both side of the Atlantic honoured him with a Festschrift,
Studies in Honour of Guido Pugliese, a 398-page volume
edited by Anthony
Mollica (Soleil, 2015)
On behalf of the Department of Language
Studies (UTM), the Department of
Italian Studies (UofT) and the University of Toronto, I wish to
extend our
sincere condolences to his wife, Professor Olga Pugliese, and
his family.
His obituary announcement is appended to
this message and available
online at:
http://www.rskane.ca/tribute/details/9438/Guido_Pugliese/obituary.html#tribute-start
Salvatore Bancheri
Chair, Department of Italian Studies, UofT
Obituary
of Guido Pugliese
Emeritus
Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga
Suddenly
at home on Tuesday January 12th, 2016, Guido passed away in his
76th year after
a long university career in Italian Studies. Always devoted to
his students, he
is survived by his wife Olga, brothers Mario (Marika) and Joe
(Rose).
Predeceased by his brother Angelo (Mary). He will be remembered
by his
sisters-in-law Mary (the late Ivano), Velma(the late Duilio),
Susan (the late
Fred) and his many nieces and nephews: Rose Ann (Sam), Michael
(Carmela),
Sandra (Frank), Emilio (Etsuko),Nushee (Mark), Christina (Pat),
Paola
(Domenic), Daniela (fiance Martin),Gerry (Catherine), Elaine
(Joe), Arlene
(Lody), Steven (Danik), Rochelle (Brad), Sandro (Michelle) and
25 great nieces
and nephews. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 13
and Thursday
January 14 from 4 to 9 p.m. at the R. S. Kane Funeral Home (6150
Yonge Street
at Goulding south of Steeles). A Mass of Christian Burial will
take place on
Friday January 15 at 1:30 p.m. at the Chapel of St. Joseph, Holy
Cross Catholic
Funeral Home (211 Langstaff Road East, Thornhill, west of
Bayview).Interment to
follow at Holy Cross Cemetery. A special thank you to Sherluck
Robles for his
care and companionship during the past year. In lieu of flowers
donations would
be appreciated to either of the two Guido and Olga Pugliese
Scholarship Funds:
Office of Advancement, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359
Mississauga Road
North, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 (payable to the University of
Toronto
Mississauga) or Office of Alumni Affairs and Advancement,
Victoria University
in the University of Toronto, 150 Charles Street West, 3rd
Floor, Toronto, ON
M5S 1K9 (payable to Victoria University).