Teodolinda Barolini
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Occupation | Professor of Italian |
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Discipline | Italian literature |
Sub-discipline | Dante studies |
Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, and has twice served as Chair of the Department of Italian (1992–2004 and 2011–2014).[1]
Barolini was born December 19, 1951 in Syracuse, New York. She is the daughter of Antonio Barolini[1] and Helen Barolini.
In 1998, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of Italian literature.[2] From 1997 to 2003, she served as president of the Dante Society of America.[1] In 2007, she won a Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies.[3]
She has written on the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.[1]
She is married to James J. Valentini, professor of Chemistry at Columbia and the sixteenth and current Dean of Columbia College.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Teodolinda Barolini". Columbia University. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ "Teodolinda Barolini". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ "Premio di Italianistica" (in Italian). Associazione Culturale Ennio Flaiano. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
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