[INDOLOGY] death of Raniero Gnoli

[Elisa Freschi]

Dear Raffaele, dear friends and colleagues,

I will need more time to put together my thoughts and my words to express
my indebtedness to Prof. Raniero Gnoli, but I also want to immediately
participate in the pain of the loss of an incredible scholar, maker and
human being, and in the gratitude for having being alive long enough to
have known him and learnt from his words. His pāṇḍitya was limitless, his
ability to read anything starting from anywhere was astonishing, as well as
the lucidity of his fearless judgements.
I know that his children and the former pupils who were closer to him will
miss him even more and my thoughts are with them.

Best wishes,

elisa (freschi)




On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 09:26, Oliver Fallon via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> All respect to his memory.
> In Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) *3rd Day Sequence*: Marcello meets
> Steiner, his distinguished intellectual friend, inside a church. Steiner
> shows off his book of Sanskrit gammar:
> https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d0b7e9c4-e061-4c27-a277-4fa481f7bc82
> Although the Wikipedia page says that Steiner was modeled on the novelist
> Cesare Pavese, I always wondered if Gnoli also was an inspiration? He would
> have been 30 at the time of the film's release.
>
> On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 11:25, Pankaja Ganapathy via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Shivaloka praaptirastu
>>
>> On Tue, 6 May, 2025, 2:41 pm Lyne Bansat-Boudon via INDOLOGY, <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> This is very sad news that will affect many of us, especially those for
>>> whom non-dualist Kashmir Shaivism is a field of research.
>>> Is there any need to recall Professor Gnoli’s pioneering role in this
>>> field and the inaugural study he brilliantly conducted on Indian aesthetic
>>> theory, one of the major dimensions of this system of thought?
>>>
>>> In a certain way, Professor Gnoli “created”, or rather discovered and brought to light the aesthetic Indian thought as an autonomous, yet very much integrated new discipline, rich in countless metaphysical resonances that not only help us better understand how non-dualist Kashmir Shaivism is a “system” in the strongest sense of the word, but also contribute to bring about the putting into perspective of the many Western theories, themselves relatively partial.
>>>
>>> His work as a philologist and philosopher has inspired many researchers
>>> of subsequent generations, beginning with the one who was his most faithful
>>> and brilliant disciple, Professor Raffaele Torella.
>>> We will greatly miss Professor Gnoli, but the number and quality of his
>>> works will remain an indispensable reference for us.
>>>
>>>
>>> Lyne Bansat-Boudon
>>>
>>> Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde
>>>
>>> Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
>>>
>>> Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *De :* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> de la part de
>>> Raffaele Torella via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Envoyé :* lundi 5 mai 2025 23:18
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>>> *Objet :* [INDOLOGY] death of Raniero Gnoli
>>>
>>> Dear Members,
>>> some hours ago Raniero Gnoli, one of the most outstanding scholars of
>>> our times, and an extraordinary gentleman, has left us. He has passed away
>>> peacefully at the age of 95. He was a unique man…
>>>
>>> Raffaele Torella
>>>
>>>
>>> Prof. Raffaele Torella
>>> Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit
>>> Sapienza University of Rome
>>> wwwuniroma1.academia.edu/raffaeletorella
>>>
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-- 
Dr. Elisa Freschi

Associate Prof. of South Asian Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Building,
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ON M5R 2M8 Toronto (Canada)
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http://elisafreschi.com
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