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Professor Piero Boitani FBA

Elected 1999

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
1999
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

Current post

Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

Publications

Riconoscere è un dio. Scene e temi del riconoscimento in letteratura 2014, Torino, Einaudi

Dante e il suo futuro 2013 Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

Letteratura e verità 2013 Studium

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame 1984 Brewer

Il grande racconto delle stelle 2012, Il Mulino

The Gospel according to Shakespeare 2013 University of Notre Dame Press

Guida allo studio delle letterature comparate 2013 Laterza

The Shadow of Ulysses. Figures of a Myth 1994 Clarendon Press

The Bible and its Rewritings 1999 Oxford University Press

Winged Words. Flights in Poetry and History 2007 University of Chicago Press

La prima lezione sulla letteratura 2007 Laterza

Sulle orme di Ulisse 2007 Il Mulino

Letteratura europea e Medioevo volgare 2007 Il Mulino

The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature 1989 Cambridge University Press

Chaucer and the Italian Trecento, ed. 1983 Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, ed. with Jill Mann 2003 (2nd) Cambridge University Press

The European Tragedy of Troilus, ed. 1989 Clarendon Press

English Medieval Narrative 1982 Cambridge University Press

The Genius to Improve an Invention 2002 University of Notre Dame Press

Prosatori Negri del Novecento 1973 Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

Chaucer and Boccaccio Medium Aevum Monographs NS VIII 1977

Related Fellows

Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition

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Professor Nico Mann FBA

Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition

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Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

English Language and Literature

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