Mario E. Cosenza was an educator and classical scholar of the Italian Humanists. He was the first principal of Townsend Harris Hall Prep School and Dean of Faculty at Brooklyn College in New York.
Biography Mario Emilio Benvenuto Angelo Cosenza was born in Naples, Italy on November 21, 1880, to Giuseppe Francesco Cosenza, a painter, and Emilia Cosenza, an opera singer. He and his three siblings emigrated to the United States in 1896, joining his parents, who had come to the United States four years earlier.
Cosenza studied at Columbia University, with a dissertation entitled "Official positions after the time of Constantine" published in 1905.
Bibliography
Ettore Pais, Ancient Legends of Roman History, tr. Mario Cosenza, 1905 Mario Cosenza, Official Positions After the Time of Constantine, Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, 1905 Mario Cosenza, Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors, University of Chicago Press, 1910 Mario Cosenza, Francesco Petrarca and the Revolution of Cola Di Rienzo, University of Chicago Press, 1913 Mario Cosenza, The Study of Italian in the United States, Italy America society, 1924 Mario Cosenza, The Establishment of the College of the City of New York as the Free Academy in 1847, Associate Alumni of the College of the City of New York, 1925 Mario Cosenza, Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Humanists and of the World of Classical Scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800, G.K.Hall & Co., 1964 Mario Cosenza, Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Printers and of Foreign Printers in Italy, G. K. Hall & Co., 1966 Mario Cosenza, Checklist of Non-Italian Humanists, 1300 - 1800, G. K. Hall & Co., 1969
References
External links Mario E. Cosenza Papers, MS# 0298, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. Letter from Mario E. Cosenza to Alice E. Kober, November 17, 1946 Memorandum Regarding Flag Pole, CUNY Academic Works, Brooklyn College History, December 3, 1937