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Tiziano Scarpa

Italian author

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1080060 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tiziano Scarpa (born 16 May 1963) is an Italian novelist, playwright and poet.

Born in Venice, he won the 2009 Strega Prize for his novel, Stabat mater.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tiziano Scarpa” is italian author. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tiziano, Scarpa and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2009—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1963-05-16, 1963—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Tiziano, Scarpa and Italian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “italian author” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1080060. VIAF identifies the subject as 267486478. The Library of Congress control number is n99043713. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963 and 2009.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tiziano Scarpa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tiziano Scarpa primary sources, Tiziano Scarpa archive and Tiziano research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tiziano Scarpa”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tiziano Scarpa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.