Ronald Martinez
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Italian Studies
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I am currently finishing, in collaboration with Robert M. Durling, an edition with translation and commentary of Dante's Divine Comedy (the first two volumes, Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published). I am also preparing a book-length study on Dante's appropriation of liturgy for narrative and linguistic aspects of his work.
Interests
RL Martinez has published some thirty scholarly essays on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Machiavelli, co-authored a book on Dante's lyrics (Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose, University of California Press, 1990) and translated Italian plays and literary criticism. In addition to Dante and Trecento Studies, his research interests include Renaissance drama and cultural history. Currently he is finishing, in collaboration with Robert M. Durling, an edition with translation and commentary of Dante's Divine Comedy for Oxford Press (Inferno, 1996; Purgatorio, 2003, Paradiso in preparation), and preparing a book-length study on Dante's appropriation of liturgy.
Awards
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969; University of California Regent's Fellowship, 1971; Danforth Dissertation Fellowship, 1973; NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1993-94; Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti (Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence), 1999; U. of Minnesota Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, 2001.
Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Dante Society of America
Renaissance Society of America
Funded Research
No current funding. Past funding: NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1993-94 ($30,000); U. of Minnesota Graduate School research grant, 1998 (do not recall amount); Brown University grant for new course development (shared with Prof. E. Lincon)($3000).