Cecil Grayson

Cecil Grayson (born February 5, 1920 , † April 28, 1998 in Oxford ) was a British Romanist and Italianist.

Life

Grayson attended Batley Grammar School , served six years in India, and graduated from St Edmund Hall , Oxford in 1947 . From 1948 he taught at Oxford, from 1958 to 1987 as Serena Professor of Italian Studies .

Grayson was long time President of the Oxford Dante Society. He was a member of several academies. In 1979 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Grayson was Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE, 1992).

Fonts

Monographs

• Cinque saggi su Dante , Bologna 1972.
• Studi su Leon Battista Alberti , ed. by Paola Claut, Florence 1998.

Editorial activity

• (with Carlo Dionisotti ) Early Italian texts , Oxford 1949, 1965, 1972.
• Opusculi inediti di Leon Battista Alberti: Musca. Vita S. Potiti , Florence 1954, Pisa 2005.
• Vincenzo Calmeta, Prose e lettere edite e inedite , Bologna 1959.
• Leon Battista Alberti, Opere volgari , 3 vols., Bari 1960–1973.
• La prima grammatica della lingua volgare. La grammatichetta vaticana cod. Vat. Reg. Lat. 1370 , Bologna 1964.
• Francesco Guicciardini Selected Writings , London 1965.
• Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting and on Sculpture. The Latin Texts of De Pictura and De Statua , London 1972.
• Leon Battista Alberti, De Pictura , Rome / Bari 1975, 1980.
• The World of Dante. Essays on Dante and his times , Oxford 1980.

Translation activity

• Roberto Ridolfi , The life of Girolamo Savonarola, New York 1959.
• Roberto Ridolfi, The life of Niccolò Machiavelli, London 1963.
• Roberto Ridolfi, The life of Francesco Guicciardini, London 1967.
• Leon Battista Alberti, On painting, ed. by Martin Kemp, London 1991.

literature

• Valerio Lucchesi: Obituary Professor Cecil Grayson , in: The Independent June 2, 1998.
• JR Woodhouse: In Memoriam: Cecil Grayson (1920-1998) , in: Dante Studies 116, 1998, pp. 277-281.
• JR Woodhouse: Cecil Grayson, 1920-1998 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 105 , 2000, pp. 461-470 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
• Leon Battista Alberti e il Quattrocento. Studi in onore di Cecil Grayson e Ernst Gombrich. Atti del convegno internazionale, Mantova, 29-31 ottobre 1998 , ed. by Luca Chiavoni, Gianfranco Ferlisi and Maria Vittoria Grassi, Florence 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Cecil Grayson in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 3, 2020 .