Thomas Okey
Portrait de Thomas OKEY
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.[3]
Works[]
- Venice and its Story (1904)[4]
- Paris and its Story (1904)
- Dante's Purgatorio (translator).[5]
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi[6]
- The Story of Avignon (1926)
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis
- Selections From the Vita Nuova
- The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk
- A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)
References[]
- ^ Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
- ^ Jonathan Usher (2004). "Okey, Thomas (1852–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ "Robert Hollander: Charles Singleton's Hidden Debts to Thomas Okey and John Sinclair". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ Okey, Thomas (1904-01-01). Venice and Its Story. J. M. Dent & Company.
- ^ Dante Alighieri, 1., Okey, T., Oelsner, H., Wicksteed, P. H. (Philip Henry). (1912). T he Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri. London: J.M. Dent & sons ltd.
- ^ Okey, Thomas (2003-09-19). The Little Flowers of Saint Francis. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486431864.
External links[]
Works written by or about Thomas Okey at Wikisource- Works by Thomas Okey at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Okey at Internet Archive
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