LINO PERTILE
Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Spring 2010
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Academic Degrees: 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
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 in 2009-2010:
Italian 130c. Dante’s Paradiso - (New Course) [fall term]
Italian 201r (formerly Italian 201). Italian Studies Colloquium [spring term]
Italian 260r. Poesia del Novecento - (New Course) [spring term]
Literature and Arts A-26. Dante’s Divine Comedy and Its World [fall term]
Other Courses Offered:
[Italian 123. Semantics of Desire: Love in Dante’s Poetry]
[Italian 140. The Human Comedy: the novella from its origins to the Renaissance]
[Italian 230. Petrarca and the Divided Self]
[Italian 288r. Italian Literature Seminar: Pavese]
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 23, 2009
