Italian Studies

Educated at Oxford University, the University of Virginia and Harvard, Anthony Oldcorn is a distinguished Pascoli, Tasso and Dante scholar. He chaired the Italian Studies department at Brown for many years, before retiring in 2000. He also contributed to create and directed the Brown in Bologna program. His publications include: "The Textual Problems of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Conquistata" (1976); Letture Classensi (1989) and the three volumes of the California Lectura Dantis (with Allen Mandelbaum and Charles Ross). He translated from the work of Seamus Heaney into Italian, and of Carlo Goldoni, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italo Svevo, Massimo Bontempelli, Gianni Celati and Umberto Eco into English.