Paget Jackson Toynbee, FBA (1855–1932) was a British

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...

scholar.

Robert Hollander Robert B. Hollander Jr. (July 31, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American academic and translator, most widely known for his work on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He was described by a department chair at Princeton University as "a p ...

has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'. Toynbee also provided thousands of quotes for the ''

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''.

Works

*''A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898

:*revised, 1968, Charles S. Singleton *''Dante studies and researches'' (1902) *'A Chronological List of English Translations from Dante from Chaucer to the present day' in ''The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1905'' (1906) *''Dante Alighieri His Life and Works'' (1910) *'An unrecorded seventeenth century version of the ''Vita di Dante'' of Leonardo Bruni' in ''The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1910'' (1912) *''Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914) *''The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771)'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915). Editor *'History of the letters of Dante from the fourteenth century to the present day' in ''The thirty-sixth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1917'' (1919) *'Dante in English art' in ''The thirty-eighth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1919'' (1921) *''Dante Studies'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921) *'The Oxford Dante' in ''The forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1926'' (1926) *

Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his '' Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,'' published in 1751. G ...

, ''Correspondence'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935). Editor with

Leonard Whibley Leonard Whibley (20 April 1864 – 8 November 1941) was a British scholar who edited ''A Companion to Greek Studies'' from 1905 to 1931.Sydney C. Roberts, revised by Mark Pottle (2004).Whibley, Leonard (1863–1941). ''Oxford Dictionary of Nationa ...

*''Dantis Allegherii Epistolae: The Letters of Dante'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). Editor *''The Letters of Horace Walpole''. 16 volumes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903-5). Editor (Made in collaboration with Helen Wrigley Toynbee, his wife)

Legacy

In the years immediately before his death, Toynbee donated manuscripts, papers and correspondence relating to Dante and to

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twi ...

to the

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. Further papers were bequeathed by him in 1932. The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place annually in Oxford since 1995.Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello(eds.) ''Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures. 1995–2003''. (Oxford: Oxbow, 2010)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toynbee, Paget Academics of the University of Oxford 1855 births 1932 deaths Dante scholars