Ron Terpening
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Ron Terpening is an American writer, professor of Italian, and editor. Though he started his writing career as an author of young-adult fiction, where the father/son conflict is a major theme, he is b
Terpening in Tucson, 2006
Ron Terpening, Tucson, 1989.
Charon and the Crossing
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Thomas G. Bergin
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Thomas Goddard Bergin was an American scholar of Italian literature, who was "noted particularly for his research on Dante's Divine Comedy and for its translation". He was the Sterling Professor of Ro
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…comprehensive study of the underworld boatman Charon as found in the literary tradition from pre-Homeric texts through the early Baroque period in Italy. Thomas G. Bergin (Yale University) said that the book, “in grace of an engaging style and a never flagging interest in [the] subject, makes for lively reading.” Terpening…
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Dante Alighieri painted by his contemporary Giotto