Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
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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July 9, 2008
