Movement and Meaning in the Divine Comedy: Toward an Understanding of Dante's Processional Poetics: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 14 - Softcover

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Christopher Klienhenz is the Carol Mason Kirk Professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught medieval Italian literature for more than three decades. Among his books and edited volumes are The Early Italian Sonnet; Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Medieval Studies in North America; Saint Augustine, the Bishop; Fearful Hope; and Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, as well as a translation of The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore. His teaching and research interests center on Italian literature of the Duecento and Trecento (especially Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio), manuscript studies, and the interrelationship of art and literature in medieval Italy. In 2004 he received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, In addition to serving as Editor of Dante Studies (1988-2002), he has been President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (1999-2003), President of the American Boccaccio Association (1993-97), and President of the Medieval Association of the Midwest (1984-85, 2003-04).