Edmund Garratt Gardner

John Edmund Garratt Gardner (born May 12, 1869 in Kensington (London) , † July 27, 1935 in London ) was a British Romanist and Italianist .

life and work

Gardner, who initially studied medicine, came through a recreational stay in Florence (from 1890) to self-study Italian studies. On the basis of his publications he was commissioned in 1910 without academic consecration with the "Barlow Lecture on Dante" at University College London (until 1926) and in 1919 appointed first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester (until 1923). At the University of London from 1923 to 1925 he was professor for “Early Italian Language and Literature”, then for Italian.

Gardner was a member of the British Academy (1925) and of the Order of the Crown of Italy (officer 1921, commander 1929, grand officer 1935).

Works

Monographs

• Dante's ten heavens. A study of the Paradiso , Westminster 1898, 1900, London 1904
• The Story of Florence , London 1900, 11th edition 1928; Florence and its story , London 1953, New York 1970, Nendeln 1971, Freeport 1972
• Dante , London 1900, 6th edition 1912, 1990
• (with Philip H. Wicksteed) Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio , Westminster 1902, New York 1970, Freeport 1971
• The story of Siena and San Gimignano , London 1902, 1904
• Dukes & poets in Ferrara. A study in the poetry, religion and politics of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries , London 1904, New York 1968, St. Clair Shores, Mich. 1972
• The king of court poets. A study of the work life and times of Lodovico Ariosto , London 1906, New York 1968, 1969
• Saint Catherine of Siena. A study in the religion, literature and history of the fourteenth century in Italy , London 1907; ad T. The road to Siena. The essential biography of St Catherine , ed. by Jon M. Sweeney, Brewster, Mass. 2009
• The painters of the school of Ferrara , London 1911
• Dante and the mystics , New York 1912, London 1913, New York 1968
• The national idea in Italian literature , Manchester 1921
• Tommaso Campanella and his Poetry , Oxford 1923 (Taylorian lecture)
• Italian literature , London 1927, Folcroft 1979 (Portuguese: História Breve da Literatura Italiana, Lisbon 1941)
• The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature , London 1930, New York 1971
• Italy. A companion to Italian studies , London 1934

Editorial activity

• The Cell of Self-Knowledge. Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 , London 1910, New York 1966
• The Dialogues of Saint Gregory , London 1911, Merchantville, NJ 2010
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, A Platonic Discourse upon Love , London 1914
• The Book of Saint Bernard on the Love of God , London 1916
• The reality of God, and religion & agnosticism. Being the literary remains of Baron Friedrich von Hügel , London 1931
• Dante, The Divine Comedy , London 1961

literature

• Gardner, John Edmund Garratt . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 3 : Gabb – Justamond . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1947, pp. 12 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Olin H. Moore: Edmund Garratt Gardner (1869-1935). In: Italica. Volume 12, No. 4, 1935, ISSN  0021-3020 , p. 200, JSTOR 475490 .
• Cesare Foligno : Edmund Garratt Gardner, 1869–1935. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume 21, 1936, ISSN  0068-1202 , pp. 464-479.
• Charles J. Sisson, Cesare Foligno: Edmund Garratt Gardner, May 12, 1869 - July 27, 1935. A bibliography of his publications, with appreciations. Dent, London 1937 (with picture).
• Jonathan Usher: Gardner, (John) Edmund Garratt (1869-1935). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 21: Freud – Gibberd. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861371-7 , sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Edmund Garratt Gardner in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• britac.ac.uk