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Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

Pizzo Family Chair in Dante Studies
Ravarino Family Director of Italian and Dante Studies Center for Italian Studies/ Devers Family Program in Dante Studies

Ted Cachey
Office Hours
Mondays 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Decio 314
Office
314 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-5651
Email
tcachey@nd.edu

Website

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Northwestern University

Biography

Theodore J. Cachey Jr. is Inaugural Pizzo Family Chair in Dante Studies and Ravarino Family Director of Italian and Dante Studies and the Center for Italian Studies/ Devers Family Program in Dante Studies.Cachey specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance literature, particular Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch, the history of the Italian language, and the literature and history of travel. He has authored or edited several books, including Le isole fortunate; appunti di storia letteraria italiana (1994); Pigafetta's First Voyage Around the World (1995; 2nd revised edition, 2007); Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (1995); Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (2002), Le culture di Dante (2004), Dante and Petrarch: Anti-dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (2009, with Z.G. Baranski), Dante’s ‘Other Works.’ Assessments and Interpretations (2022, with Z.G. Baranski), as well as essays and book chapters in Annali d'Italianistica, Belfagor, California Italian Studies, Danta Studies, Intersezioni, The History of Cartography, Modern Language Notes, Schede umanistiche, and Rivista di letteratura italiana. He is founder and co-editor (with Zygmunt G. Baranski and Laura Banella) of the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, and direttore/editor in chief of Le Tre Corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio (Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa – Roma): https://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=121&h=865&w=600

Research Interests

Dante; Petrarch; Boccaccio; History of the Italian Language; Travel Literature; Literature and Cartography

 

Representative Publications

American Dantes. Traditions, Translations, Transformations. Edited by Zygmunt G.Barański and Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming, 2025.

“Geografie della scrittura”, in Geografie del Petrarca, a cura di Gino Belloni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi e Francesco Piovan, Padua, Antenore, 2024, pp. 121-136.

Dante’s ‘Other Works.’ Assessments and Interpretations. Edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Weblink: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268202392/dantes-other-works/

“Mappe e strutture topografiche dell’Inferno dantesco,” Leopereseguite: Atti degli incontri sulle Opere di Dante, ed. Paola Allegretti, Marcello Ciccuto, Giuseppe Ledda, Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galuzzo, forthcoming 2022, pp. 125-153.

"Forum: Dante and Cosmology,"; Dante Studies, Vol. 140 (2022), pp. 135-235 ("Introduction," pp. 135- 142). Coordinated by Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Anna Pegoretti, and Chiara Sbordoni. Contributions by Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Anna Pegoretti, Alison Cornish, Anna Gabriella Chisena, Susanna Barsella, Giovanna Corazza, Ronald L. Martinez. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/903959

“Wandering, Travel, Mapping,” The Oxford Handbook of Dante, Eds. Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 415-430.

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