Charles S. Singleton
Educator, Translator
1909 – 1985
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Who was Charles S. Singleton?
Charles S. Singleton was an American scholar, writer, and critic of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri, but also of Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova, and the famous Dante Studies. He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, work which he also translated into English, in six volumes. Irma Brandeis was one of his disciples.
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1909
McLoud - Also known as
- Charles Southward Singleton
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Romance literature
( - 1936)
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Baltimore
( - 1985/10/10)
- Baltimore
- Died
- Oct 10, 1985
Carroll County
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on July 23, 2013
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