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Alison Cornish |
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Italian Literature and Medieval Studies Interests and Current Work I am interested in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto and their contemporaries; science in literature; cosmology in Dante; Latin learning and vernacular forms (poetry, prose, preaching); and early translation. Recent and Selected Publications Reading Dante's Stars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. "A Lady Asks: The Gender of Vulgarization in Late Medieval Italy." PMLA March 2000. "A King and a Star: The cosmos of Morante's L'isola di Arturo." MLN January 1994. |