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| Born | Charles Southward Singleton (1909-04-21)April 21, 1909 McLoud, OK |
| Died | October 10, 1985(1985-10-10) (aged 76) Carroll County, MD |
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| Discipline | Italian Literature |
| Sub-discipline | Dante Studies |
Charles Southward Singleton (1909–1985) 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 (I vol. in 1954). He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, a work which he also translated into English in six volumes. Irma Brandeis was one of his disciples.
Life and career
Singleton earned his associated bachelor's from the University of Missouri in 1931 and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936. From 1937 until his death, he taught at Johns Hopkins University, except from 1948 to 1957, when he filled the chair in Italian studies at Harvard.
In 1950, Singleton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1962. He gave the lecture: "The Vistas in Retrospect" in 1965 at the Congresso Internazionale di Studi Danteschi in Florence where he received the golden medal for Dante Studies whose other honorees include T. S. Eliot and André Pezard.
References
- "Premio Internazionale "Galileo Galilei dei Rotary Club Italiani"". 17 April 2013.
- italica.rai.it Archived March 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; danteonline.it
- Cassell, Anthony K. (1986). "In Memoriam: Charles S. Singleton (1909-1985)". Italica. 63 (3): vii–ix. ISSN 0021-3020. JSTOR 478621.
- "Charles S. Singleton Chair in Italian Studies - Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships". Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
- "Charles Southward Singleton". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- "Fido: Charles S. Singleton". www.brown.edu. Retrieved Jun 20, 2021.
External links
- Singleton's death in The New York Times and the Associated Press
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