Name Robert Durling | ||
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Books Time and the crystal, The Figure of the Poet in Renais, The Divine Comedy of Dante Ali, The Divine Comedy of Dante Ali | ||
Robert M. Durling was an American scholar and translator, known for his translations of Petrarch's Rime Sparse and (with Ronald Martinez) of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He was professor emeritus of Italian and English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He died on May 21, 2015.
Durling was a student of Charles S. Singleton and took his course on the Comedy, a class he says "literally changed my life."
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