Robert M. Durling

Robert M. Durling (March 11, 1929 – May 21, 2015)^[1] 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.^[2] He was professor emeritus of Italian and English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[3] He died on May 21, 2015.

Durling was a student of Charles S. Singleton and took his course on the Comedy, a class he said "literally changed my life."^[4]

He graduated from Harvard University (BA, PhD).

Bibliography

The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.^[5]
Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose (with Ronald L. Martinez). Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1990.^[6]

^ "In Memoriam: Robert Durling". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
^ Benfell, V. Stanley (November 2012). "Rev. of Durling and Martinez, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso". The Medieval Review.
^ "Medieval Matters: Dante Now". Stanford University. January 20, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
^ Telander, Alex C. "An Interview with Robert M. Durling". BookBanter. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
^ Buxton, John (1967). "The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic Robert M. Durling". The Review of English Studies (Review). New Series. 18 (72): 455–56. doi:10.1093/res/XVIII.72.455. JSTOR 512074.
^ Barolini, Teodolinda (1994). "Rev. of Durling and Martinez, Time and the Crystal". Comparative Literature. 46 (1): 104ff. doi:10.2307/1771621. JSTOR 1771621.

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