Background
Marc Monnier was born on December 7, 1827, at Florence, Italy.
Marc Monnier was born on December 7, 1827, at Florence, Italy.
Monnier was educated in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin.
He became professor of comparative literature at Geneva, and eventually vice-rector of the university.
He wrote a series of short, satirical, dramatic sketches collected as Theatre de marionettes (1871), and stories, notably Nouvelles napolilaines (1879), numerous works on Italian history, a translation of Goethe's Faust. The first volume of his Histoire de la lilterature moderne, La Renaissance, de Dante A Luther (1884), was crowned by the French Academy.
Marc Monnier died on April 18, 1885, at Geneva.