Martin L. McLaughlin was

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of Italian and Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the

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from 2001 to 2017 where he was also a

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.'Martin McLaughlin. Sub-Faculty of Italian, Modern Languages, Oxford University', ''Italian at Oxford''. (2007).
Retrieved 27 January 2008. He published academic papers and is the English translator of

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's ''On Literature'' and

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...

's ''Hermit in Paris''. He died on 24 January 2025. https://www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/02/03/for-martin-mclaughlin.html

Academic research

McLaughlin's research interests include Italian

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, Renaissance

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, Renaissance

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, Renaissance

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, Alberti,

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Poliziano Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano () or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholars ...

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, the classical legacy in Italian literature, contemporary Italian Fiction,

, Andrea De Carlo, and

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studies. He taught Italian language and literature, especially

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

, Renaissance literature from Petrarch to Tasso, post-war fiction especially Calvino, the Italian short story, and translation studies.

Published works

*''Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance, Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs'' (London: Clarendon Press, 1995) *''Italo Calvino, Writers of Italy'' (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) *''Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist'' (Princeton, 2024) *Translator, Italo Calvino, ''The Path to the Spider's Nest'' (London: HarperCollins, 1998) *Translator, Italo Calvino, ''Why Read The Classics?'' (London: Cape, 1999) *Editor, ''Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand'' (Oxford: Legenda, 2000) *Translator, Italo Calvino, ''Hermit in Paris. Autobiographical Writings'' (London: Cape, 2003) *Translator, Umberto Eco, ''On Literature'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 2005) *Editor, with Peter Hainsworth, ''Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy'' (Oxford: Legenda, 2007) *Editor, with Birgitte Grundtvig and Lene Waage Petersen, 'Image, Eye and Art' in ''Calvino: Writing Visibility'' (Oxford: Legenda, 2007) *Editor, with Letizia Panizza and Peter Hainsworth, ''Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators Over 700 Years'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) *Editor, with Michelangelo Zaccarello, ''Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2005'' (Oxford: Legenda, April 2008)

References

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