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Charles S. Singleton

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American scholar (1909-1985)

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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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1978Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
1977Haskins Medal
1950Guggenheim Fellowship

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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. 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.

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Lived 1909 to 1985 · aged 76
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