Copyright

Robin Kirkpatrick

Published On

2015-09-01

Page Range

pp. 97-118

Language

  • English

Print Length

21 pages

5. Massacre, Miserere and Martyrdom

  • Robin Kirkpatrick (author)
Chapter of: Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1 (pp. 97–118)

Contributors

Robin Kirkpatrick

(author)
Emeritus Professor of Italian and English Literatures and Fellow of Robinson College at University of Cambridge

Robin Kirkpatrick is Emeritus Professor of Italian and English Literatures at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College. He has written a number of books on Dante and on the Renaissance, and is particularly interested in the relationship between Italian and English literature from 1300 to 1600 and in the Modern Period. His verse translation of the Commedia with notes and commentary was published by Penguin Classics in 2006-2007.