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Robert M. Durling (March 11, 1929 – May 21, 2015) was an American scholar and translator, known for his translations of Petrarch's Rime Sparse and (with Ronald Martinez) of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He was professor emeritus of Italian and English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He died on May 21, 2015.

Durling was a student of Charles S. Singleton and took his course on the Comedy, a class he said "literally changed my life."

He graduated from Harvard University (BA, PhD).

Bibliography

• The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.
• Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose (with Ronald L. Martinez). Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1990.

References

1. "In Memoriam: Robert Durling". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
2. Benfell, V. Stanley (November 2012). "Rev. of Durling and Martinez, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso". The Medieval Review.
3. "Medieval Matters: Dante Now". Stanford University. January 20, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
4. Telander, Alex C. "An Interview with Robert M. Durling". BookBanter. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
5. Buxton, John (1967). "The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic Robert M. Durling". The Review of English Studies (Review). New Series. 18 (72): 455–56. doi:10.1093/res/XVIII.72.455. JSTOR 512074.
6. Barolini, Teodolinda (1994). "Rev. of Durling and Martinez, Time and the Crystal". Comparative Literature. 46 (1): 104ff. doi:10.2307/1771621. JSTOR 1771621.

External links

• Robert M. Durling at U of California, Santa Cruz

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