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Professor Simon Gilson FBA

Dante; Renaissance Italian literary, intellectual and cultural history; reception of vernacular authors (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) in Renaissance Italy; history of criticism; reception of ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) in Renaissance Italy
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2022
Sections
Medieval Studies
Website
https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/member-of-staff/simon-gilson/

Current posts

University of Oxford Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies

Magdalen College, University of Oxford Professorial Fellow

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