Charles Southward Singleton

Charles Southward Singleton (born April 21, 1909 in McLoud , Oklahoma , † October 10, 1985 in Carroll County , Maryland ) was an American Romanist , Italianist and Medievalist .

life and work

Singleton studied a. a. in Florence with Michele Barbi and Mario Casella . In 1936 he received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley with the work The literature of pagentry in Florence during the Renaissance . He taught from 1937 to 1948 at Johns Hopkins University , from 1948 to 1957 at Harvard University and from 1957 again at Johns Hopkins University. In 1950 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1962 to the American Philosophical Society .

(Ed.) Canti carnascialeschi del Rinascimento, Bari 1936
(Ed.) Nuovi canti carnascialeschi, Modena 1940
An Essay on the Vita Nuova, Cambridge, Mass. 1949, 1958, Baltimore / London 1977 (Italian: Bologna 1968)
Dante Studies, 2 Vols., Cambridge, Mass. 1954-1958: 1. Commedia. Elements of structure (also Baltimore 1977). 2. Journey to Beatrice (partial translation in Italian: Studi su Dante I. Introduzione alla Divina Commedia, Naples 1961, 1965; Viaggio a Beatrice, Bologna 1968; complete translation in Italian: La poesia della "Divina Commedia", Bologna 1978, 1988, 1990, 1999 , 2004)
(Ed.) Boccaccio, Il Decameron, 2 vols., Bari 1955, Baltimore 1974
(Eds.) Paget Toynbee, Dante Alighieri. His life and works, New York 1965
Art, science, and history in the Renaissance, Baltimore 1967
(Editor) Paget Toynbee , A Dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1968
(Ed. With Peter Brieger and Millard Meiss ) Illuminated manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, 2 vols., Princeton 1969
Interpretation. Theory and Practice, Baltimore 1969
(Translator) Dante, The Divine Comedy, 6 vols, Princeton 1970-1975
La poesia della "Divina Commedia", Bologna 1978, 1988, 1990, 1999, 2004 (Italian translation of Dante Studies, 1954-1958, as well as a text from Illuminated manuscripts, 1969)
(Ed.) Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron. The John Payne translation, Berkeley / London 1982

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. Studies in the Italian Trecento in honor of Charles S. Singleton, ed. by Aldo S. Bernardo and Anthony L. Pellegrini, Binghamton, NY 1983
New York Times October 12, 1985 ( http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/12/us/charles-s-singleton.html )
Corriere della Sera October 14, 1985
Dante Della Terza, sv "Singleton", in: Enciclopedia dantesca, vol. 5, Rome 1976
Anthony L. Cassell: "In Memoriam: Charles S. Singleton (1909-1985)", in: Italica. Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian 1986
Giornata internazionale di studi in onore di Charles S. Singleton (September 10, 1988), in: Letture classensi 18, 1989, pp. 129-260
Rino Caputo, Per far segno. La critica dantesca americana da Singleton a oggi, Rome 1993
A. Charles S. Singleton. In memoriam in: Filologia e critica 20, 2-3, 1995

personal data
SURNAME	Singleton, Charles Southward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Singleton, Charles S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist, Italianist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	McLoud , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1985
Place of death	Carroll County , Maryland