Professor
John Freccero
(
–
)
1930
2021
New York University
;
Palo Alto, CA
Literary critic; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2015
Almost 29 years ago his groundbreaking study, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion (1986), was published. It grew out of a number of rigorous textual analyses on The Divine Comedy he wrote over several years of his career. These essays had long given him the reputation as the leading Dante scholar and teacher of Italian literature in American universities.
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