Giovanni Battista Bronzini

Giovanni Battista Bronzini (1925 in Matera – 2002 in Bari) was an Italian anthropologist and historian of Italian folk traditions.

He was a student of the University of Rome, then Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bari and director from 1974 to his death in anthropological studies.

A literary scholar, Bronzini explained magical and superstitious peasant culture of the thirties and forties and the traditions of rural Italy.

Selected publications