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Name
  
Thomas Okey


Role
  
Writer

Died
  
1935, Brasted, United Kingdom

Books
  
Venice and its story, The story of Paris, An Introduction to the Art, Italy To‑Day, The Old Venetian Palaces a

Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.

Works

  • Venice and its Story (1904)
  • Paris and its Story (1925)
  • Dante's Purgatorio (translator).
  • The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • The Story of Avignon (1926)
  • The Little Flowers of St. Francis
  • Selections From the Vita Nuova
  • The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk
  • A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)

    • References

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