People
Piero Boitani
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dante and Italian Studies; Professor
of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Professor Boitani received his Laurea in Lettere from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" then went on to earn degrees from Wittenberg and Cambridge Universities. Currently professor of comparative literature at La Sapienza, Boitani has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, Ohio State University and Keio University in Tokyo, and is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Boitani has authored a great number of books, including Chaucer and Boccaccio, English Medieval Narrative of the 13th and 14th Centuries, The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature, The Shadow of Ulysses: Figures of a Myth, The Bible and its Rewritings, and, with Notre Dame University Press, The Genius to Improve an Invention. His most recent books include Parole alate (Mondadori, 2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Contact Information
pboitani@nd.edu
343 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-6886
