A professor at the
University of Florence, she was a member of the
Accademia della Crusca and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, as well as president of the
Viareggio Prize. As a philologist, she is best remembered for her critical editions of
Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, in the 1550 and 1568 editions, with commentary by
Paola Barocchi (6 volumes, Florence, Sansoni, 1966-87),
Dante da Maiano (Florence, Le Monnier, 1969), Jacopone da Todi's Laudario urbinate (Florence, Sansoni, 1969), Eugenio Montale's L'opera in versi (Turin, Einaudi, 1980, in collaboration with his teacher
Gianfranco Contini),
Petrarch Canzoniere (Turin, Einaudi, 2005). Between 1991 and 1996, he also published Montale's poems from the Diario postumo (Posthumous Diary) for Mondadori, whose attribution was contested by Dante Isella. == References ==