About The Professor
Giuseppe Mazzotta is Director of Graduate Studies and the Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian and the Director of Graduate Studies. He has written a number of essays about every century of Italian literary history. His books include: Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy (Princeton, 1979); The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron (Princeton, 19 86); Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge (Princeton, 1993); The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke UP, 193); The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (Princeton, 1998) (Italian translation, Turin: Einaudi, 2001); Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment (Toronto UP, 2001) (Italian translation, Palermo: Sellerio 2008). He has also edited or co-edited several boooks, such as Critical Essays on Dante (Hall, 1991) and Master Regis (Fordham UP, 1985). In 2008, he published the Norton edition of Dante's Inferno (translated by M. Palma); etc.
Contact:
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Italian Language and Literature
82-90 Wall Street, Room 404
P.O. Box 208311
New Haven, CT 06520-8311
e: giuseppe.mazzotta@yale.edu
p: 203 432-0598
f: 203 432-2164
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