Giuseppe Mazzotta (born January 1, 1942) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

of Italy, currently the Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, and also a published author. Mazzotta served as president of the Dante Society of America from 2003-2009.

Early life and education

He was born at

Curinga Curinga ( Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. The settlement has historically been inhabited by an Arbëreshë community, which now has assimilated. 1980 train crash On Nov ...

, Italy on January 1, 1942. He received a B.A. from

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

in 1965, a M.A. from

in 1966 and a PH.D. from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

in 1969.

Career

Originally from Italy, he has served at the Yale University since 1986 and also served as the Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor at

in 2014.

Works

*''Reading Dante'' (2014) *''Encyclopaedia Mundi - Studi di letteratura italiana in onore di Giuseppe Mazzotta'' (2013) *''Modern Language Notes (MLN) - Italian Issue Supplement, Volume 127, Number 1, January 2012'' (2012) *''Cosmopoiesis: Renessansens prosjekt'' (2009) *''Cosmopoiesis: Il progetto del Rinascimento'' (2008) *''Inferno Dante Alighieri'' (2007) *''Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment'' (2001) *''The New Map of the World'' (1999) *''La nuova mappa del mondo: La filosofia poetica di Giambattista Vico'' (1999) *''The Worlds of Petrarch, Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies'' (1993) *''Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge'' (1993) *''Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy'' (1979) :– Source:

References

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