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Charles S. Singleton
American scholar (1909-1985) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 76
Charles Southward Singleton was an American scholar, writer, and critic of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova (1949) and Dante Studies.
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He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, a work which he also translated into literal English prose with commentary in six volumes. Irma Brandeis and Robert M. Durling were two of his disciples.
