Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor

Professor

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 of Italian

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 and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

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 where he is a Fellow

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 of Magdalen College

Magdalen College, Oxford

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. In addition to his published academic results he is the English translator of Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

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's On Literature and Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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's Hermit in Paris.

Academic specialisms

McLaughlin's research interests include Italian

Italy

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 Renaissance

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 literature

Literature

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, Renaissance humanism

Humanism

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, Renaissance literary theory

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, Renaissance biography

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, Alberti

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, Petrarch

Petrarch

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, Poliziano

Poliziano

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, Tasso

Tasso

-People:*Torquato Tasso, the famous Italian 16th-century poet, author of Gerusalemme liberata**Tasso, Lament and Triumph, a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt based on the poet*Bernardo Tasso, his father, also a poet...

, the classical

Classical antiquity

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 legacy in Italian literature, contemporary Italian Fiction, Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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, Andrea De Carlo

Andrea De Carlo

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, and translation

Translation

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 studies. He teaches Italian language and literature, especially Dante

DANTE

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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 Peter Hainsworth, Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy (Oxford: Legenda, 2007)
• Editor, with Birgitte Grundtvig and Lene Waage Petersen, 'Image, Eye and Art' in Calvino: Writing Visibility (Oxford: Legenda, 2007)
• Editor, with Letizia Panizza and Peter Hainsworth, Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators Over 700 Years (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Editor, with Michelangelo Zaccarello, Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2005 (Oxford: Legenda, April 2008)