Martin L. McLaughlin is

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

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where he is a

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.'Martin McLaughlin. Sub-Faculty of Italian, Modern Languages, Oxford University', ''Italian at Oxford''. (2007).
Retrieved 27 January 2008. In addition to his published academic results he is the English translator of

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's ''On Literature'' and

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

's ''Hermit in Paris''.

Academic research

McLaughlin's research interests include Italian

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, Alberti,

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, the

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legacy in Italian literature, contemporary

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, and

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studies. He teaches Italian language and literature, especially

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, 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) *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

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, ''Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy'' (Oxford: Legenda, 2007) *Editor, with

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and

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, 'Image, Eye and Art' in ''Calvino: Writing Visibility'' (Oxford: Legenda, 2007) *Editor, with

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and Peter Hainsworth, ''Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators Over 700 Years'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) *Editor, with

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, ''Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2005'' (Oxford: Legenda, April 2008)

References

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