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Prof. PAUL DIFFLEY
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Professor of Italian, Exeter 1996--; Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford 1983-89; Lecturer, Italian, Christ Church, Oxford; Lecturer in Italian & Course Director External Degree, Royal Holloway, London University 1992-96; Music Critic, Oxford Mail, 1979-89. |
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EDUCATION & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Archbishop's Secondary Modern School then Simon Langton Grammar School, Canterbury, Kent; Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1976; Cecil Roth Memorial Prize for Italian Studies, University of Oxford, 1979; BA, First Class Honours in French and Italian, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1980; MA in Medieval and Modern Languages, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1983; Senior Paget Toynbee Prize for the Study of the Works of Dante, University of Oxford, 1984; D.Phil in Medieval and Modern Languages, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1986; British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1986-89; LTCL (Licentiate of Trinity College, London) Piano Teaching Diploma, July 1991.
EMPLOYMENT: POSTS HELD: Assistant Organist & Choirmaster, St Dunstan's Parish Church, Canterbury, 1971-76; Organist & Choirmaster, Wickhambreux Parish Church, Kent, 1971-76; Music Critic, Oxford Mail, 1979-89; Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1983-86; British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1986-89; Examiner, Oxford Board, A Level Italian, 1984-89; Lecturer in Italian, Christ Church, Oxford, 1989-90; Organist, Iffley Parish Church, Oxford, 1991-96; Lecturer in Italian and Course Director for the External Degree in Italian, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1992-96; Professor of Italian, University of Exeter, 1996- (Head of Italian Department, 1997-2002); External Examiner in Italian Studies (BA, MA and Ph.D), Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Dublin (University College), Glasgow, Leeds, London (Royal Holloway College and University College), Oxford, Reading; Member of Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, British School at Rome sponsored by the British Academy; Editor for the periodical Italian Studies, the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, and reader for various academic publishers (OUP and CUP etc.).
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Italian Renaissance and Baroque Language and Literature; Questione della lingua; Dante Alighieri; St Catherine of Siena; the 'novella' in the Renaissance; Matteo Maria Boiardo; Pietro Bembo; Marguerite de Navarre; Luigi Alamanni; Antoine le Maçon; Sperone Speroni; Giovanni della Casa; Torquato Tasso; Paolo Beni; Alessandro Tassoni; Giulio Ottonelli; Pietro della Valle; Vincenzo Monti; Giulio Perticari; Elio Vittorini; Giorgio Bassani; Primo Levi; Luciano Bianciardi; Antonio Tabucchi; Franco Buffoni; Translation Studies. |
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University of Exeter |
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Only Visible to Members of getCITED
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Doctorate
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Magdalen College, University of Oxford
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Diffley, P. B..
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Thomas F. Luongo, The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2006)
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Diffley, P. B..
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Italy in Crisis 1494 ( Oxford : Legenda, 2000)
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(2001)
Luigi Pulci, Morgante: The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante, translated by Joseph Tusiani, with introduction and notes by Edoardo A. Lebano (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
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Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream, translated by Joscelyn Godwin (London: Thames and Hudson, 1999).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
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Lucrezia Marinella, The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, edited and translated by Anne Dunhill and introduced by Letizia Panizza (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(2001)
Michelangelo, The Poems, edited and translated by Christopher Ryan (London: J. M. Dent, 1996).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
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Christopher Ryan, The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction (London : Athlone, 1998)
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Diffley, P. B..
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Brian Richardson, Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1998)
T. C. Price Zimmermann, Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995)
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1994)
Virginia Cox, The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in Its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1994)
Claudio Tolomei, Del raddoppiamento da parola a parola, edited by Barbara Garvin (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1992).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1992)
New Perspectives on Renaissance Thought: Essays in the History of Science, Education and Philosophy in Memory of Charles B. Schmitt, edited by John Henry and Sarah Hutton (Duckworth & Istituto per gli Studi Filosofici, 1990).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1992)
England and the Continental Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. B. Trapp, edited by Edward Chaney and Peter Mack (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1990).
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1991)
Lectura Marini: 'l'Adone' letto e commentato. Edited by Francesco Guardiani. University of Toronto Italian Studies, 6. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1989.
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Diffley, P. B..
(1990)
Robin Kirkpatrick, Dante's Inferno: Difficulty and Dead Poetry (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987)
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(Book Review in
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Diffley, P. B..
(1990)
Jeremy Tambling, Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988)
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Diffley, P. B..
(1987)
Vittoria Colonna, Rime. Edited by Alan Bullock. Scrittori D'Italia, 270. Rome-Bari: Laterza, 1982.
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