Professor
Giuseppe E. Mazzotta
Yale University
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2001
The leading scholar of Italian literature today and one of the best literary critic-scholars anywhere. His books on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Vico, and other Renaissance figures are landmarks of literary studies. His knowledge of the classics and their influence on medieval and Renaissance literatures is the greatest since Curtius and Auerbach.
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