Italian Language and Literature
Elected 1987
Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge
The Ciceronian rhetorical tradition in Latin & vernacular literatures of Western Europe & England; memory training & invention; Middle English literature.
Medieval French literature & manuscripts, particularly the 'Roman de la Rose', courtly allegory & prose romance.
The history of medieval Central Europe; the transmission of medieval texts in Latin; the diffusion of humanism; the history of the papacy and the Roman curia in the Renaissance
