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Professor Piero Boitani FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
Literature
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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Isabel Torres FBA

Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre

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Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA

History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries

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Professor Stephen Greenblatt FBA

Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities

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