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LINO PERTILE

Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave 2007-2008)

 

EDUCATION: Dottore in Lettere, University of Padua


RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dante and the Latin Middle Ages; Bembo and the 'question della lingua"; Renaissance Literature in France and Italy; Foscolo and Leopardi; Contemporary Italian Novel
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Publications:
  • La punta del disio. Semantica del desiderio nella Commedia, Florence, Cadmo, 2005.
  • La scena del mondo. Studi teatrali per Franco Fido, (ed. with R. Lamparska & A. Oldcorn), Ravenna, Longo, 2006.
  • La puttana e il gigante, Del Cantico dei Cantici al Paradiso terrestre di Dante, Ravenna, Longo, 1998.
  • The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (ed.), Cambridge University Press 1996 (new revised paperback edition, 1999).
  • The New Italian Novel, ed., Edinburgh University Press, 1993. (paperback 1996).
  • Annotationi nel Dante fatte con M. Triphon Gabriele, Bologna, Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1993.

  • Courses offered 2009-2009:

  • Italian 123. Semantics of Desire: Love in Dante’s Poetry (spring)
  • Italian 230. Petrarca and the Divided Self (spring)
  • Italian 288r. Italian Literature Seminar: Pavese (fall)
  • Literature and Arts A-26. Dante’s Divine Comedy and Its World (fall)

    Other courses offered:

  • [ Italian 140. The Human Comedy: the novella from its origins to the Renaissance ]

    For more information, go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.


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    Last updated on June 10, 2008