Staff profile - Professor Patrick Boyde
Professor Patrick Boyde
College:
St John's College
Positions:
Emeritus Professor of Italian
Department of Italian
Postal Address:
St John's college
St John's Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1TP
Email:
pb127@cam.ac.uk Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 338748
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Professor Boyde specialises in medieval and Renaissance literature and art with special reference to Dante, as well as rhetoric, scholasticism, Michelangelo, narrative painting and sculpture.
Professor Boyde is the author of:
Dante's Lyric Poetry (with K. Foster), (Oxford, 1967);
Dante's Style in his Lyric Poetry (CUP, 1971);
Dante Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos (CUP, 1981); and
Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy (CUP, 1993). He is the editor of (and contributor to):
Lettura del Fiore (with Z. Baranski) (Ravenna, 1993);
Dante e la scienza (with V. Russo) (Ravenna, 1995);
The Fiore in Context (with Z. Baranski) (Notre Dame, 1997); and
Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy (CUP, 2000).
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