Charles S. Singleton
American scholar of literature (1909-1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Southward Singleton (1909–1985) was an American scholar, writer, and critic of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova (1949) and Dante Studies (I vol. in 1954). He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, a work which he also translated into English in six volumes.[2] Irma Brandeis was one of his disciples.
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Born | Charles Southward Singleton (1909-04-21)April 21, 1909 McLoud, OK |
Died | October 10, 1985(1985-10-10) (aged 76) Carroll County, MD |
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Discipline | Italian Literature |
Sub-discipline | Dante Studies |
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